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20 Pula
| Issuer | Bank of Botswana |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Value | 20 Pula (20 BWP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Bank of Botswana This note is legal tender for Twenty Pula MINISTER OF FINANCE GOVERNOR PULA |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of a diamond mining and processing facility rendered in intaglio, with industrial buildings, conveyor belts, and processing equipment set against a lightly ruled sky. A stylised serpentine guilloche scroll occupies the left margin, flanked by denomination numerals '20' within ornate rosette frames at lower-left and lower-right. A multicolour geometric disc motif appears at upper left alongside the issuer title in Setswana, with the printer's imprint 'SABN' at lower right. |
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The Bank of Botswana has issued its notes through the South African Bank Note Company since the pula was introduced in 1976, a printing relationship that reflects both geographic pragmatism and the deep economic ties between Botswana and its southern neighbor. By 1999, the 20 Pula sat in the middle of a series that had been incrementally updated through the 1990s with revised security specifications — the security thread on this issue is a windowed rather than fully embedded type, a distinction worth noting when comparing against earlier pulls from the same denomination.