The 1993 100 Pula was issued during a period when Botswana's economy, buoyed by diamond revenues from the Orapa and Jwaneng mines, was among the fastest-growing in the world — a fiscal position the Bank of Botswana was keen to reinforce through a well-produced high-denomination note. Thomas De La Rue's involvement was a deliberate choice; the printer had handled Botswana's notes since independence, and continuity of production was itself a statement of institutional stability.
P#16 is the only watermark-secured note in the series without a security thread, a detail that made it increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated reproduction by the late 1990s and contributed to its relatively short circulation lifespan before revised issues superseded it.
The 1993 100 Pula was issued during a period when Botswana's economy, buoyed by diamond revenues from the Orapa and Jwaneng mines, was among the fastest-growing in the world — a fiscal position the Bank of Botswana was keen to reinforce through a well-produced high-denomination note. Thomas De La Rue's involvement was a deliberate choice; the printer had handled Botswana's notes since independence, and continuity of production was itself a statement of institutional stability.
P#16 is the only watermark-secured note in the series without a security thread, a detail that made it increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated reproduction by the late 1990s and contributed to its relatively short circulation lifespan before revised issues superseded it.