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20 Pula
| Issuer | Bank of Botswana / Banka ya Botswana |
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| Year | 2004-2006 |
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| Size | 149 x 74 mm |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of President Festus Mogae at left on a red and pink guilloche underprint, with the denomination numeral '20' in large format at lower left and upper left corners. At centre, a vignette of an ostrich stands within a circular guilloche rosette, flanked by the national coat of arms at upper right. The 'Bank of Botswana' legend appears across the top, with the legal tender inscription and 'Twenty Pula' in bold script at lower centre-right. |
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| Signature(s) | B. Gaolatihe / Mrs. L.K. Mohohlo |
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P#27 spans the 2004–2006 signature transition from B. Gaolatihe to Mrs. L.K. Mohohlo, who served as Bank of Botswana Governor from 1999 to 2016 — one of the longer tenures for a central bank governor on the continent. Notes bearing the Gaolatihe signature are the earlier printings and slightly less common in high-grade circulation survivors.
De La Rue's relationship with Botswana dates to independence-era printings. The security package here is modest by mid-2000s standards — watermark and thread only, no optically variable ink — reflecting a calculated cost decision for a denomination that saw heavy day-to-day use in domestic commerce.