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100 Pula
| Issuer | Bank of Botswana |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Value | 100 Pula (100 BWP) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a female worker sorting diamonds at a table, viewed from behind, with an aerial view of an open-pit diamond mine extending across the right background. The composition is framed by guilloche scrollwork and diamond-shaped ornamental motifs at the margins, all printed in blue and gold tones on a light guilloche underprint. The printer's imprint 'Thomas De La Rue and Company Limited' appears at lower centre. |
| Reverse lettering | BANKA YA BOTSWANA Pula tse di lekgolo 100 |
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The 1993 100 Pula was issued during a period when Botswana's economy, buoyed by diamond revenues from the Orapa and Jwaneng mines, was among the fastest-growing in the world — a fiscal position the Bank of Botswana was keen to reinforce through a well-produced high-denomination note. Thomas De La Rue's involvement was a deliberate choice; the printer had handled Botswana's notes since independence, and continuity of production was itself a statement of institutional stability.
P#16 is the only watermark-secured note in the series without a security thread, a detail that made it increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated reproduction by the late 1990s and contributed to its relatively short circulation lifespan before revised issues superseded it.