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20 Pula
| Issuer | Bank of Botswana / Banka ya Botswana |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Printer | Harrison & Sons Limited |
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| Reverse description | Predominantly red intaglio print over a light guilloche underprint, centred on a vignette of an industrial mining and ore-processing facility with conveyor belts and handling equipment. The Setswana issuer title 'Banka ya Botswana' is inscribed at top centre, with the denomination in Setswana 'Pula tse di Masome Mabedi' at lower right, and numeral '20' at upper left and lower right within decorative guilloche panels at the side margins. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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Harrison & Sons had been printing Botswana's notes since the earliest issues following independence in 1966, and by the 1992 series the relationship was well established. The firm's High Wycombe facility — by then operating as part of the De La Rue group following the 1997 merger, though still trading under the Harrison name through this period — produced work of consistently high intaglio quality for Commonwealth central banks.
The 20 Pula denomination sits in the middle of a series that was gradually displacing the founding-era designs. P#13 is the second distinct 20 Pula type, replacing P#9 from the mid-1980s run.