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20 Emalangeni
| Issuer | Central Bank of Eswatini |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Size | 148 × 70 mm |
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| Reverse description | A multicolour guilloche underprint frames a composition of national agricultural and industrial motifs: a flower, ears of corn, and a pineapple occupy the left field, while a steer appears at centre and a refinery vignette is placed to the right. The Central Bank of Eswatini seal accompanies the denomination rendered as a see-through registration device, and a gold windowed security thread with demetallized numeral 20 and the initials CBE runs vertically through the note. |
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| Protection type | Security thread, See-through registration |
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Giesecke+Devrient's hybrid substrate — a paper-polymer composite — was adopted by a number of smaller central banks in the 2020s as a cost-performance compromise between traditional cotton-linen paper and full polymer. It offers improved durability over paper without the full tooling costs of a dedicated polymer run. Eswatini's move to this format for the 2024 series reflects a broader modernization push by a central bank that had previously relied on conventional substrates for decades.
P#B44 designation places this firmly in the new series, distinct from earlier Swazi issues printed under the kingdom's pre-2018 name. The see-through registration feature requires precise front-to-back alignment at press — a small but telling indicator of print quality commitment on a note from a nation of under 1.2 million people.