Catalog
| Issuer | Bank of Botswana |
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| Year | 2005 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Sir Seretse Khama at left centre, rendered in intaglio against a multicolour guilloche underprint. At centre, a vignette of a malachite kingfisher in full colour is flanked by the denomination numeral 50 and a latent-image security patch. The Bank of Botswana coat of arms appears at upper right, with the legal tender clause and denomination legend printed across the lower centre field. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a poler standing in a traditional mokoro canoe on the Okavango Delta waterway, with an African fish eagle in flight occupying the right field against a background of papyrus reeds and open water rendered in multicolour intaglio and lithography. The denomination numeral 50 appears at both left and right margins within ornate guilloche borders. A vertical security thread is visible through the paper at centre. |
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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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