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Ghana's 1965 high-denomination notes were issued under Kwame Nkrumah's government in the months before his February 1966 overthrow in a military coup. The National Liberation Council that replaced him immediately set about demonetizing certain issues as a means of severing symbolic ties to the Nkrumah administration, which significantly disrupted circulation and survival rates for notes from this period.

Bradbury Wilkinson had a long relationship with West African issuers, and their New Malden facility produced much of the anglophone region's currency through the 1960s. The P#9A designation indicates a variety within the series — likely a signature combination change rather than a redesign.