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50 Piastres
| Issuer | Sudan Government |
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| Year | 1955 |
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| Printer | Waterlow & Sons Limited, London |
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| Obverse lettering | حكومة السودان اتعهدان أدفع عند الطلب لحامل هذا السند مبلغ خمسون قرشاً |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Sudan's 1955 currency issues appeared in a peculiarly compressed political window — after the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium Agreement of 1953 set self-governance in motion but before formal independence on 1 January 1956. The Sudan Government notes of this transitional period were therefore issued by an administration that was neither colonial nor yet fully sovereign, a status with no clean parallel in the region's monetary history.
Waterlow & Sons had printed currency for the Sudan Currency Board going back decades, so the contract continuity here is unsurprising. What is notable is how short the effective issue life was — independence brought an almost immediate move toward establishing the Bank of Sudan, and these transitional government notes were superseded quickly.
Pick lists this as P#A2, indicating an early or provisional classification — likely reflecting incomplete documentation at the time the catalog entry was first established.