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25 Dalasis
| Issuer | Central Bank of The Gambia |
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| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | A carmine bee-eater vignette occupies the centre of the note, the bird rendered in intaglio perched on a branch against a decorative guilloche underprint with a multicolour diamond-pattern panel. A portrait of a man in traditional dress appears at the right, printed in intaglio. The denomination numeral 25 appears at lower left and lower right corners, with two facsimile signatures below the bird vignette, attributed to the Governor and General Manager respectively. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a fine-line intaglio view of Government House in Banjul, a two-storey colonial-style building set within landscaped grounds with palm and tropical trees lining a paved approach. Intricate guilloche border work frames the design on all sides, with the denomination numeral 25 repeated in each corner. A decorative geometric multicolour panel appears at the right margin. |
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The Gambia's 1996 series was the first to introduce a security thread across the denomination range — a relatively late adoption for an anglophone West African issuer with close institutional ties to De La Rue, who had printed Gambian notes since independence. Thomas De La Rue's London facility handled the full production run, and the watermark and embedded thread combination reflects the mid-1990s security upgrade package the printer was rolling out across multiple small-nation contracts simultaneously.
Pick 18 replaced the earlier 25 Dalasi type from the late 1980s as part of a broader redenomination-adjacent redesign, though the Dalasi itself remained stable — the change was cosmetic and security-driven rather than crisis-prompted.