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50 Dalasis
| Issuer | Central Bank of The Gambia |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Currency | Dalasi (1971-date) |
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| Obverse description | A vignette of two hoopoe birds occupies the centre of the note against a guilloche underprint, with an intaglio portrait of a young Gambian woman in traditional dress and beaded jewellery at right. Two facsimile signatures appear at lower left, attributed to the Governor and General Manager respectively. The note is printed in purple and ochre tones with decorative geometric borders. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Gambia's 50 Dalasi was first issued in the mid-1990s under the AFPRC military government that had seized power in Yahya Jammeh's July 1994 coup — a period when the Central Bank was operating under significant political constraint. Thomas De La Rue's involvement provided a degree of institutional credibility to notes issued during what was, constitutionally speaking, an extra-legal administration.
Pick 19 carries only a watermark as its listed security feature, modest by the standards De La Rue was applying to other African issues of the same period.