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25 Piastres
| Issuer | Sudan Currency Board |
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| Year | 1956 |
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| Currency | First pound (1956-1992) |
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| Reverse lettering | SUDAN CURRENCY BOARD TWENTY-FIVE PIASTRES |
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| Protection description | a camel and rider, visible when held to light |
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Sudan's Currency Board was established specifically to issue notes at the moment of independence in January 1956, replacing the Egyptian pound as the country's monetary unit. This 25 Piastres note is among the first issues of a newly sovereign state — the Board's mandate was transitional by design, and the Sudan Bank that eventually superseded it was already being planned when these notes entered circulation.
De La Rue produced the series under tight political deadlines. The P#1A designation marks this as the earliest variant of the type, and the single security feature — a watermark — reflects the stripped-down specification typical of emergency independence-era currency contracts.