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5 Dalasis
| Issuer | Central Bank of The Gambia |
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| Year | 2001-2005 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is rendered in red-brown tones on a pale underprint and carries a pastoral intaglio vignette occupying the central field, showing a herdsman with a group of cattle grazing on open grassland with trees and hills in the background. The issuer name CENTRAL BANK OF THE GAMBIA is lettered in the upper panel, and FIVE DALASIS appears in the lower panel, with the numeral 5 repeated in each corner. A security thread is visible at the right margin. |
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| Protection description | Embedded security thread running vertically through the note; a crocodile visible when held to light |
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Thomas De La Rue had printed Gambian notes since the country's earliest post-independence issues, and this series continued that relationship into the early 2000s. The Gambia's small economy and limited note requirements meant print runs were modest, and the five-dalasi denomination sat at the lower end of everyday transactional value — enough to see genuine street circulation but not the heavy commercial use that destroys higher denominations quickly.
The 2001–2005 date range covers the consolidation of Yahya Jammeh's rule following his 1994 coup, a period of institutional restructuring that the Central Bank navigated largely by maintaining continuity in its note designs rather than commissioning politically charged replacements.