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5 Pula
| Issuer | Bank of Botswana / Banka ya Botswana |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Value | 5 Pula |
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| Reverse lettering | BANKA YA BOTSWANA 5 Pula tse Tlhano HARRISON & SONS LIMITED |
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| Protection description | Sir Seretse Khama portrait; embedded security thread running vertically through the note |
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| Comments |
Harrison and Sons printed Botswana's banknotes through much of the post-independence period, producing work of consistently high technical quality from their High Wycombe facility. The P#11 series was issued as Botswana's economy was expanding on diamond revenue, and the 5 Pula occupied an awkward middle denomination — high enough for meaningful transactions, low enough that notes in this series typically saw hard daily use and returned to the Bank of Botswana worn within months.
The security thread on this issue is a simple metallic strip rather than the windowed threads that became common later in the decade — worth noting when authenticating, as later forgeries sometimes substituted crude alternatives.