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50 Pounds

Issuer Central Bank of Sudan
Year 2018
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Shape Rectangular
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Reverse lettering CENTRAL BANK OF SUDAN
Legal Tender Banknote
FIFTY SUDANESE POUNDS
50
APRIL 2018
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Protection type Watermark, Security thread
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Sudan established its own currency printing facility — the Sudan Currency Printing Press — partly to reduce dependence on foreign printers, a strategic priority that intensified after the country's various political ruptures. By 2018, the Sudanese pound was deep into a prolonged depreciation spiral, with inflation eroding purchasing power so severely that the 50-pound note, once a meaningful denomination, had become nearly transactional small change within months of issue.

The Pick 76 series carries only watermark and security thread protection — a notably thin security specification for a note of this face value issued at a time when counterfeiting pressure on Sudanese currency was well documented by regional financial authorities.

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