Catalog
20 South Sudanese Pounds
| Issuer | Bank of South Sudan |
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| Year | 2015-2017 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central intaglio portrait of Dr. John Garang de Mabior (1945–2005), Sudanese politician and SPLA revolutionary leader, set against a guilloche underprint. To the right, a vignette of a traditional Dinka warrior's spear is rendered in intaglio. The denomination numeral '20' appears in large figures at lower left, with the issuer's name and value inscriptions framing the design. |
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| Reverse lettering | Bank of South Sudan / Twenty / South Sudanese Pounds / 20 |
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South Sudan's currency has been in near-continuous crisis since independence in 2011. By the time this note was printed, the country had already entered a second civil war (December 2013), and the pound was losing value rapidly against the dollar on both official and parallel markets. The 2015–2017 date range for this issue reflects the extended print run rather than a stable monetary environment — the central bank was struggling to maintain basic note supply as the economy deteriorated.
De La Rue's involvement here is straightforward contract printing; security feature provision was kept relatively modest for the denomination.