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50 Maloti
| Uitgever | Central Bank of Lesotho |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 2021-2024 |
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| Waarde | 50 Maloti |
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| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
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| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Central vignette presents portrait busts of King Moshoeshoe II and King Letsie III flanking a central portrait of King Moshoeshoe I, the founder of the Basotho nation, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The national coat of arms of Lesotho appears to one side, with the issuing authority's name and legal tender inscription rendered in intaglio. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | A central intaglio vignette occupies the middle of the note, rendered in dark violet tones, showing a group of four Basotho horsemen in traditional dress set against a mountain landscape, enclosed within an oval guilloche frame surrounded by a pink and lavender multicolour underprint with foliate and geometric rosette patterns. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large figures at the upper left and lower right, with a vertical security thread strip at right bearing the value repeated in microtext. |
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| Handtekening(en) | Log in om details te zien |
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| Opmerkingen |
The 50 Maloti sits in an awkward position in Lesotho's currency hierarchy — large enough to matter in daily transactions, but not the flagship denomination that typically drives security upgrades. This P#28 series, running from 2021 into 2024, represents De La Rue's continued hold on Lesotho's print contracts, a relationship stretching back to the maloti's introduction in 1980 when it replaced the rand at par.
Lesotho remains entirely surrounded by South Africa, and the rand retains strong parallel use in everyday commerce, which has historically kept pressure on the Central Bank to maintain note quality without inflating issuance costs. The watermark and security thread here are functional rather than elaborate — no windowed thread variants or color-shifting ink reported for this denomination.