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5 Pounds
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Malawi |
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| Year | 1964 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of President Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda in an oval frame at left, set against a fine guilloche underprint. To the right, a central intaglio vignette illustrates a tranquil scene on Lake Malawi with two figures in a dugout canoe, a lone tree on the shoreline, and a hill rising in the background. The denomination FIVE POUNDS appears in large letterpress text across the centre, with the promise-to-pay inscription above and the Governor's manuscript signature below. |
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| Signature(s) | Alane Perrin |
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Malawi's first banknote series appeared at independence in July 1964, when the country separated from the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and required its own currency almost immediately. Bradbury Wilkinson, working from their New Malden facility, had relatively little lead time — the notes were ready at independence rather than well in advance of it.
Pick 4 is the highest denomination of that inaugural series. Alane Perrin signed as Governor, though his tenure at the Reserve Bank was brief. The note's short active lifespan before decimalization in 1971 keeps genuinely circulated examples scarce.