Catalog
25 Piastres
| Issuer | Sudan Currency Board |
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| Year | 1956 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Rose-pink intaglio print on a light ground. A vignette at left centre shows a line of uniformed soldiers in formation before a commanding officer, set against a landscape with hills. Arabic inscriptions appear at upper centre identifying the issuing authority, with the denomination in Arabic numerals within an ornate cartouche at right. The serial number appears twice, in red, at upper right and lower left; the third line of Arabic text measures 31 mm in length. |
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| Reverse description | Rose-pink intaglio print throughout. The central vignette presents a robed rider mounted on a walking camel against an open desert background, rendered in fine line engraving. The issuer's name arches across the top border within a decorative frame, and the denomination in English runs along the lower border; corner rosette guilloche ornaments fill each angle of the note. |
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Sudan's Currency Board was established specifically to issue notes at the moment of independence in January 1956, replacing the Egyptian pound as the country's monetary unit. This 25 Piastres note is among the first issues of a newly sovereign state — the Board's mandate was transitional by design, and the Sudan Bank that eventually superseded it was already being planned when these notes entered circulation.
De La Rue produced the series under tight political deadlines. The P#1A designation marks this as the earliest variant of the type, and the single security feature — a watermark — reflects the stripped-down specification typical of emergency independence-era currency contracts.