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50 Tambala
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Malawi |
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| Year | 1973-1975 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | RESERVE BANK OF MALAWI PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND THE SUM OF FIFTY TAMBALA ISSUED UNDER THE RESERVE BANK OF MALAWI ACT, 1964 |
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| Reverse lettering | FIFTY TAMBALA RESERVE BANK OF MALAWI |
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Bradbury Wilkinson produced this note during Malawi's first decade of independence, when the Reserve Bank was still establishing its range of fractional denominations. The tambala — introduced at decimalization in 1971, replacing the old shilling subdivisions — was a genuinely new unit, not a renamed colonial one, and these early issues were building the visual and physical vocabulary of a sovereign currency from scratch.
P#9 is the shorter-lived of the two 50 tambala types from this period; the series was retired relatively quickly as the denomination proved less practical in circulation than anticipated.