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5 Pounds
| Issuer | Bank of Sudan |
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| Year | 1970-1980 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows the Bank of Sudan headquarters in Khartoum, rendered in intaglio against a guilloche underprint in light tones. The numeral '5' appears in the lower-left corner and as a large watermark-style overprint to the right, flanked by cotton plant motifs on the right margin. Arabic inscriptions appear at top identifying the issuing bank, with the denomination and date rendered in Arabic script below the central building vignette. |
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| Reverse description | A panoramic savannah scene spans the full width of the note, with a procession of Sudanese wildlife arranged across the composition including antelopes, dromedaries, buffaloes, rhinoceros, elephant, and a male lion, set against a landscape of palm trees. The scene is rendered in warm brown tones with a guilloché border framing the vignette. The Arabic inscription identifying the theme appears above the central image. |
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The Bank of Sudan was established in 1960, taking over central banking functions from the Sudan Currency Board, and this De La Rue-printed series spans a politically turbulent decade — the 1969 coup brought Jaafar Nimeiry to power just before the earliest dated notes in this run. The shift between signature titles from Governor to Chairman of the Board of Directors and back reflects real institutional instability in how the bank's leadership was structured and named during those years.
The watermark change from rhinoceros to secretary bird between 1970 and 1971 is the quickest diagnostic for distinguishing early from later issues — more reliable than the signature check alone, since the 1971 and 1980 examples share the same bird watermark.