Catalog
50 Rand
| Issuer | South African Reserve Bank |
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| Year | 1992-1999 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | A large intaglio-engraved portrait of a male lion's head dominates the right half of the note, facing left against a fine guilloche underprint in ochre and rose tones. To the left, a central vignette renders a group of lions drinking at a waterhole beneath bare baobab trees, rendered in olive-green intaglio. The denomination numeral and bank name appear in both English and Afrikaans, with the serial number printed twice in red at upper left and lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | SOUTH AFRICAN RESERVE BANK SUID-AFRIKAANSE RESERWEBANK FIFTY RAND VYFTIG RAND President Governor |
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The Stals-signed 50 Rand series is best known among collectors for the BP-prefix error notes, where the cotton substrate was fed into the press rotated 180 degrees — placing the security thread at the left rather than the right and inverting the watermark relative to the printed face. These were not caught before distribution, which means genuinely circulated error examples exist. The color variation between red-water and brown-water lion vignettes across the Stals signing period reflects successive ink specification changes at the South African Bank Note Company, not a deliberate reissue.