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5 Pounds
| Issuer | Bank of Sudan |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Obverse lettering | بنك السودان خمسة جنيهات أول يناير ١٩٨٣ |
| Reverse description | Printed in green tones, the reverse centers on an architectural vignette of a domed mosque with a tall minaret, rendered in fine intaglio line work against a plain background. The Sudanese state arms appear at upper left within an arched guilloche border, with decorative branch motifs flanking the composition on both sides. The English inscription 'BANK OF SUDAN' runs across the top, and 'Five Sudanese Pounds' is lettered along the lower margin in English, with an Arabic equivalent inscription below the central vignette. |
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This issue falls within the brief window between Sudan's adoption of Islamic banking principles under Nimeiry's September Laws of 1983 and the economic chaos that followed. The Bank of Sudan was formally restructured to comply with Sharia-based finance that same year, making notes from this period transitional artifacts of a banking system in the middle of a legally mandated transformation.
Thomas De La Rue printed the series under contract — routine work for them in Anglophone Africa, though Sudan's political instability through the 1980s meant replacement issues followed quickly.