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50 South Sudanese Pounds
| Issuer | Bank of South Sudan |
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| Year | 2011 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Right-hand vignette of a herd of African elephants rendered in fine intaglio, accompanied by an acacia tree in the midground. The purple and lilac guilloche underprint fills the left field with a large watermark window and a geometric diamond-pattern rosette in orange. Inscriptions read 'Bank of South Sudan', 'Fifty', and 'South Sudanese Pounds', with large numeral '50' denominators in each corner. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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South Sudan's 2011 independence from Sudan made it the world's newest sovereign state at the time, and this note was part of the inaugural currency series issued almost immediately after the July 9 declaration — the South Sudanese Pound replacing the Sudanese Pound at par in the territories that seceded. De La Rue handled the entire first series, a logical choice given their existing relationships across sub-Saharan Africa.
The security specification is notably thin for a denomination of this size — watermark and thread only, with no optically variable ink or other machine-readable elements. That vulnerability became more consequential as the country descended into civil war after December 2013, when currency stability collapsed alongside the political situation.