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20 Kalahar Unissued
| Issuer | Namibia Reserve Bank |
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| Year | 1990 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | K20 K20 Namibia Reserve Bank Namibia Reserwebank 000000 I PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND EK BELOOF OP AANVRAAG TE BETAAL AAN TOONDER K20 K20 TWENTY TWINTIG KALAHAR FOR THE NAMIBIA RESERVE BANK VIR DIE NAMIBIA RESERWEBANK 000000 Signature MINISTER FOR FINANCE |
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| Reverse lettering | K20 K20 Namibia Reserve Bank Namibia Reserwebank K20 TWENTY KALAHAR TWINTIG KALAHAR K20 |
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The Namibia Reserve Bank was established in anticipation of independence, which formally arrived on 21 March 1990 after seventy-five years of South African administration. These Kalahar notes were prepared ahead of that transition but never released into circulation — Namibia instead continued using the South African Rand as legal tender until the Namibian Dollar was introduced in 1993.
The printer, Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, ceased independent operations in 1990, absorbed into De La Rue. This note may represent one of the final commissions the firm completed before that closure.