5 Pula

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.