Catalog
50 Dalasis
| Issuer | Central Bank of The Gambia |
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| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central landscape vignette of the Wassu stone circles, a prehistoric megalithic site in central Gambia, rendered in fine intaglio engraving with trees visible in the background. The composition is framed by guilloche borders with the denomination numeral 50 at lower left and right corners. The overall colour scheme mirrors the obverse in shades of purple and ochre. |
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| Protection description | Crocodile's head 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.