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50 Qirsh
| Issuer | Central Bank of Sudan |
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| Year | 1989 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | بنك السودان (Translation: Bank of Sudan) |
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| Reverse lettering | جمهورية السودان ٥٠ خمسين قرشا ١٤٠٩ه ١٩٨٩مـ (Translation: Republic of Sudan 50 Fifty Qirsh 1989 1409) |
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Sudan's 1989 coinage appeared the same year Omar al-Bashir's military coup overthrew the elected government of Sadiq al-Mahdi in June, dissolving parliament and imposing sharia law — a political rupture that would ultimately drive the country through years of monetary instability and parallel currency markets. Whether these coins saw meaningful circulation before the inflationary crises of the early 1990s eroded their purchasing power is an open question. The shift to nickel plated steel from earlier compositions was itself a cost-cutting measure reflective of Sudan's deteriorating fiscal position through the late 1980s.