Catalog
100 Pula
| Issuer | Bank of Botswana |
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| Year | 2009-2016 |
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| Currency | Pula (1976-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a vignette of an open-pit diamond mine, illustrating Botswana's position as one of the world's foremost diamond producers, complemented by a secondary vignette of a diamond sorter carefully examining a rough diamond. Fine geometric guilloche patterning fills the background, with the denomination value repeated in numerals and lettering. |
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| Protection description | Watermark in the form of the Three Dikgosi portrait visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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The 100 Pula is the highest denomination in regular circulation for Botswana, a country whose currency has remained remarkably stable since the Pula replaced the Rand-linked South African currency in 1976. That stability is no accident — Botswana's diamond revenues, managed through the Bank of Botswana's Pula Fund, gave the currency genuine reserve backing from early on, an unusual position for a landlocked sub-Saharan state in the late twentieth century.
Thomas De La Rue has printed Botswana's banknotes since the Pula's introduction, an unbroken relationship spanning nearly five decades. The P#33 series ran for seven years before being superseded, a relatively long run for a high-denomination note in a region where periodic redesigns are common security practice.