Catalog
50 Pula
| Issuer | Bank of Botswana |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Reverse lettering | Banka ya Botswana Pula tse di Masome Matlhano |
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| Protection description | Vertical windowed security thread embedded at centre of the note; Sir Seretse Khama's portrait visible when held to light |
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| Comments |
The 2005 Botswana 50 Pula (P#28) falls within the second major design series issued by the Bank of Botswana, which had by that point accumulated three decades of central banking experience since the Pula replaced the Rand at par in 1976. Thomas De La Rue's involvement with Botswana's currency dates to the earliest issues — an unusually long-running relationship for an African central bank that has never shifted printers.
Security provision on this note is relatively modest by mid-2000s standards: a security thread and watermark only, without the optically variable ink or holographic features De La Rue was fitting to higher-denomination notes elsewhere at the time.