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5 Pounds
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Malawi |
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| Year | 1964 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a tea harvest scene in which a female worker in the foreground carries a large wicker basket, gathering leaves from low tea bushes that extend across the composition, with a second figure visible to the right. The imposing massif of Mount Mulanje rises dramatically in the background under an open sky. The design is executed throughout in shades of blue, framed by ornamental guilloche borders with denomination panels at each corner. |
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| Protection description | Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda's portrait, visible when held to light |
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Malawi's first banknote series appeared at independence in July 1964, when the country separated from the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and required its own currency almost immediately. Bradbury Wilkinson, working from their New Malden facility, had relatively little lead time — the notes were ready at independence rather than well in advance of it.
Pick 4 is the highest denomination of that inaugural series. Alane Perrin signed as Governor, though his tenure at the Reserve Bank was brief. The note's short active lifespan before decimalization in 1971 keeps genuinely circulated examples scarce.