Catalog
10 Pula
| Issuer | Bank of Botswana |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Reverse lettering | Banka ya Botswana 10 DE LA RUE 2018 10 Pula (Translation: Bank of Botswana 10 DE LA RUE 2018 10 Pula) |
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| Protection type | Transparent window, Hologram, Security thread |
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Botswana's shift to polymer for the 10 Pula came as part of a broader 2018 series redesign, the first significant overhaul of the country's banknote family in over a decade. De La Rue's Safeguard polymer substrate was used, placing Botswana among a still-small group of African nations to have made the full transition away from cotton-paper stock for circulating denominations.
The transparent window is integrated into the substrate itself rather than applied as a patch — a distinction that matters for authentication, since delamination attacks that work on windowed paper notes are ineffective here.