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500 South Sudan Pounds
| Issuer | Bank of South Sudan |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Value | 500 Pounds |
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| Obverse lettering | Bank of South Sudan Promise to pay the bearer on demand Five Hundred South Sudan Pounds 500 Governor Minister of Finance 2024 Dr. John Garang de Mabior |
| Reverse description | The reverse is rendered in a harmonious palette of olive-green and teal, centred on a large guilloche rosette incorporating the numeral '500' in latent-image style. To the right, a landscape vignette presents a scenic river panorama with hills in the background, executed in fine intaglio line work. The bank title 'Bank of South Sudan' and the denomination text 'Five Hundred South Sudan Pounds' appear respectively at the top and lower centre, with the numeral '500' repeated in each corner. |
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South Sudan's 500 Pounds denomination was introduced as the highest face value in the series, a direct consequence of the hyperinflationary pressure that has eroded the South Sudanese Pound since independence in 2011. By the mid-2020s, the currency had lost the overwhelming majority of its value against the US dollar, making large-denomination notes a practical necessity rather than a prestige issue.
P#20 is among the first notes issued by the Bank of South Sudan to incorporate colour-shifting ink — a security upgrade notably absent from earlier high-value issues in the series.