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5 Pounds

Issuer Central Bank of Nigeria
Year 1968
Type Standard circulation banknote
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Obverse lettering Federal Republic of Nigeria Central Bank of Nigeria promise to pay on demand the sum of Five Pounds
Reverse description The central vignette portrays a group of workers engaged in cocoa pod processing, seated on the ground sorting and breaking open pods by hand beneath a cocoa tree, rendered in detailed intaglio in red-brown ink. To the left, an oval guilloche medallion frames the watermark zone, accompanied by the Nigerian coat of arms. The denomination £5 appears in each corner within ornate scroll-work borders.
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Variants P#13a - signature title at right: "General Manager"
P#13b - signature title at right: "Chief of Banking Operations"
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