Catalog
5 Pounds
| Issuer | Bank of Sudan |
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| Year | 1987-1990 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Green and brown note with a central vignette of Ankole-Watusi cattle being herded past traditional thatched huts, set within a fine guilloche underprint. To the right of the vignette, the Bank of Sudan state seal — an oval cartouche enclosing a map of Sudan within a wreath — is printed in green intaglio. The borders are filled with geometric and foliate ornamental patterns, with the Arabic denomination numeral '٥' at lower left and upper left, and the serial number appearing twice in black letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in shades of green with an intaglio vignette of the Bank of Sudan headquarters building at centre, rendered in fine line engraving with a colonnade facade and flagpole above. The legend 'BANK OF SUDAN' runs along the top in green letterpress, and the English denomination 'Five Sudanese Pounds' appears in a scroll cartouche at the bottom centre. The four corners carry stylised geometric and foliate ornamental devices, with the numeral '5' in each corner. |
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The Bank of Sudan's relationship with Thomas De La Rue stretched across several decades, but by the late 1980s it was becoming politically complicated. Sudan's government under Omar al-Bashir, who seized power in June 1989, was pushing toward Islamist economic restructuring — a process that would eventually produce the entirely separate currency architecture of the 1990s and, later, the split with South Sudan.
P#40 straddles that instability, issued across a date range that encompasses a coup. Notes from the post-1989 issues circulated under a government already planning to replace the pound with the dinar, which it did in 1992 at a rate of ten pounds to one dinar.