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50 Cedis
| Issuer | Bank of Ghana |
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| Year | 2019-2022 |
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| Currency | Third cedi (2007-date) |
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| Obverse description | Front-facing busts of the Big Six independence leaders — Kwame Nkrumah, Ebenezer Ako-Adjei, Edward Akufo-Addo, Joseph Boakye Danquah, Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey, and William Ofori Atta — arranged at right within a guilloche underprint, with a green cocoa bean motif beneath the portraits. The Independence Arch of Accra occupies the centre, flanked by the national arms at lower centre and a black star at left. Inscriptions include the bank name, denomination in numerals and words, legal tender clause, and the national motto. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents two architectural vignettes: at left, the ornate red-brick staircase and colonnade of Flagstaff House (now Jubilee House), and at centre-right, the whitewashed façade and arched gateway of Christiansborg Castle (Osu Castle). A large intaglio numeral "50" in gold occupies the lower left, set against a background of fine guilloche latticework in gold and teal tones. The Bank of Ghana logo appears at lower right alongside the issuer inscription. |
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Ghana's 50 Cedi note occupies an odd position in the current series — large enough to matter in daily transactions but frequently confused with other denominations in the same family due to the palette similarities that have drawn public complaints since the series rolled out. Thomas De La Rue has printed Ghanaian currency since the early independence era, a relationship that has outlasted multiple currency reforms including the 2007 redenomination that lopped four zeros off the old Cedi and reset the numbering entirely.
P#49 is cotton substrate on a relatively conventional security specification for a mid-range denomination — watermark and thread, no polymer upgrade despite Ghana having experimented with polymer on lower values.