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5 Dalasis
| Issuer | Central Bank of The Gambia |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | CENTRAL BANK OF THE GAMBIA PROMISE TO PAY ON DEMAND THE SUM OF FIVE DALASIS كلسن لول جروم دكس 5 |
| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a pastoral scene rendered in fine intaglio line work, with a herdsman tending a group of Zebu cattle grazing on open grassland, tall palm trees and tropical foliage forming the background. The denomination numeral 5 appears in each corner within ornate guilloche frames, and the issuer's name is inscribed in a panel at the top. |
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The 1996 series marked a significant reissue period for the Central Bank of The Gambia, consolidating the country's currency identity under the dalasi system established after independence from the pound-based CFA-adjacent framework. Thomas De La Rue printed the series using their standard intaglio and offset combination process, with a single watermark as the primary security provision — modest by the standards of the mid-1990s, when multilayer security threads were already commonplace on comparable West African issues.
Pick 16 is not rare, but genuine circulated examples in collectable condition are less common than their initial print runs suggest — the Gambia's hot, humid climate is genuinely punishing on cotton-substrate notes.