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50 Pounds OAU, Copper Piedfort
| Issuer | Bank of Sudan |
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| Year | 1978 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicting the Sudanese national coat of arms: a secretary bird with wings displayed, standing upon a shield and flanked by two scrolled banners, the upper banner bearing an Arabic inscription. The denomination appears in both Arabic numerals (٥٠) and Latin numerals (50) flanking the eagle at centre, with the Arabic word for pounds (جنيها) to the left. A dual-date legend appears in the lower field, citing both the Islamic calendar year 1398 and the Gregorian year 1978 in Arabic numerals. The design is framed by a continuous reeded border. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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Sudan issued this piedfort alongside the Organisation of African Unity commemorative series in 1978, a year when Khartoum was actively positioning itself as a continental diplomatic hub. Piedforts of this era were almost exclusively produced as presentation or pattern pieces for government officials and mint archives rather than for any collector market — the distinction matters, because surviving examples rarely passed through more than one or two hands before entering institutional collections.