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50 Piastres
| Issuer | Sudan Currency Board |
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| Year | 1956 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Monochrome green note with a central intaglio vignette of a camel postman — a robed rider mounted on a camel and carrying a lance — set against a sparse desert horizon. The legend SUDAN CURRENCY BOARD arches across the top within a decorative guilloche border, while FIFTY PIASTRES is inscribed in a ribbon panel at the foot. Corner rosettes and quatrefoil guilloche ornaments frame the composition. |
| Reverse lettering | SUDAN CURRENCY BOARD FIFTY PIASTRES |
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Sudan's Currency Board was a transitional body, established at independence in 1956 to replace the Egyptian pound with the new Sudanese pound — this 50 piastres note belongs to the first series ever issued by an independent Sudanese monetary authority. De La Rue handled the printing, as they did for a substantial share of newly independent African states in this period, the colonial-era banking infrastructure still very much shaping the mechanics of decolonization.
The P#2B designation distinguishes it from the P#2A by a signature change, reflecting the brief but turbulent succession of board officials in Sudan's earliest post-independence years.