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10 Pounds
| Issuer | Sudan Currency Board |
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| Year | 1956 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | الجمهورية السودانية لجنة العملة السودانية عشرة جنيهات سودانية |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents an intaglio vignette of a camel postman at right-centre, showing a robed rider mounted on a walking camel set against a lightly rendered desert landscape. A large guilloche rosette occupies the left field serving as the watermark area, enclosed within an engine-turned border in dark green. The issuer title "SUDAN CURRENCY BOARD" runs in a ruled panel across the top, with the denomination "TEN SUDANESE POUNDS" in serifed capitals along the lower centre. |
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Sudan's Currency Board was a transitional institution, established at independence in 1956 to replace the Egyptian pound with a Sudanese currency — this note belongs to the very first series issued by a sovereign Sudanese monetary authority. The board itself was short-lived; the Bank of Sudan took over issuance in 1960, making the Currency Board series a narrow window of just a few years.
Thomas De La Rue printed the series in London, as they did for a substantial number of newly independent African and Middle Eastern states in this period. The P#5 is the highest denomination in the inaugural set, which inevitably means it saw less day-to-day handling — but surviving examples still tend to show fold wear consistent with hoarding rather than active use.