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500 South Sudanese Pounds
| Issuer | Bank of South Sudan |
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| Year | 2018-2023 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Bank of South Sudan 500 Five Hundred South Sudanese Pounds |
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| Reverse lettering | Bank of South Sudan Five Hundred South Sudanese Pounds 500 |
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South Sudan's 500 Pound note entered circulation against a backdrop of one of the most severe hyperinflationary collapses in recent African history. By the time this denomination was issued in 2018, the South Sudanese Pound had lost the vast majority of its value since independence in 2011 — a combination of civil war, oil revenue collapse, and central bank money printing that had made earlier, smaller denominations functionally worthless for everyday transactions.
De La Rue's security package here is notably modest for a high-denomination note issued under such monetary pressure — watermark and thread only, with none of the optically variable features the printer had by then made routine on comparable African issues.