1 Pound

Malawi's independence from Britain came on 6 July 1964, and this note belongs to the transitional series issued that same year — before the country converted to decimal currency in 1971 with the introduction of the kwacha and tambala. The retention of pound denominations was a deliberate holdover, easing the public through the change in political authority without simultaneously disrupting familiar monetary units.

Bradbury Wilkinson handled much of the newly independent African nations' early currency production during the 1960s, and Malawi was no exception. P#3 is among the shorter-lived series in the country's issuing history.