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50 Namibia Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Namibia |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1993-date) |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio print on a multicolour guilloche underprint. A three-quarter portrait vignette of Captain Hendrik Witbooi wearing a wide-brimmed hat occupies the left and centre of the note, with his name inscribed above-left; the Parliament building in Windhoek is shown in the background to the right. The bank title "BANK OF NAMIBIA" appears at upper right alongside the national coat of arms, with the denomination numeral "50" at upper left and "N$ 50" at lower right. |
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| Signature(s) | Erik L. Karlsson |
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Namibia's first banknote series, of which this is part, appeared just three years after independence from South African administration — the new currency replacing the South African Rand at par in 1993. The Bank of Namibia had only been formally established in 1990, making this among the earliest instruments it issued under its own authority.
Karlsson served as the Bank's inaugural Governor, which gives his signature on this series a particular weight: these notes were, in the most literal sense, the first assertions of a functioning central bank.