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Green and pale multicolour note centred on an intaglio portrait of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe at left, identified by a caption below. The denomination ₦500 appears in large numerals at upper left and lower right, flanked by guilloche rosette underprints, with the inscription "Central Bank of Nigeria" and "Five Hundred Naira" in script lettering to the right. Two facsimile signature lines for the Governor and Director of Currency Operations appear at centre-right, above Arabic script at the lower edge. |
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Predominantly green note with a large central vignette of an offshore oil-drilling platform rendered in fine intaglio line work, set against a lightly printed circular underprint. The Nigerian coat of arms appears in an inset medallion at lower centre, while the denomination ₦500 is repeated at upper left and lower right corners within ornamental guilloche frames. The inscription "Central Bank of Nigeria" runs across the top, with "Five Hundred Naira" in italic script below the platform vignette. |
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Nigeria's 500 Naira has been printed on cotton paper continuously since the denomination was introduced in 2001, but the P#48 series sits within a politically charged reissue programme. In late 2022, the Central Bank of Nigeria under Governor Godwin Emefiele announced a currency redesign and rapid withdrawal of existing notes — a move widely interpreted as an attempt to flush out cash hoarded outside the banking system ahead of the February 2023 general elections. The resulting shortage was severe enough that the Supreme Court intervened, ordering the old notes to remain legal tender while the new ones were phased in.
The cotton substrate and security thread specification are unchanged from earlier series. What changed was the timeline — and the chaos it produced.