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50 Namibia Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Namibia |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Composition | Paper (Cotton Paper) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Captain Hendrik Witbooi (ca. 1830–1905), national hero of Namibia, occupies the central field. The Tintenpalast (Parliament Building) in Windhoek appears as a secondary vignette, accompanied by the Namibian coat of arms. Guilloche underprint patterns frame the design, with the denomination numeral and issuer name rendered in intaglio. |
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| Obverse lettering | Bank of Namibia 50 |
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Namibia's banknote series has been printed by Giesecke & Devrient since independence, a relationship that reflects both the printer's dominant presence across southern African central banks and the practical absence of a domestic security printing facility. The 2003 issue of this denomination carries the signature of Tom Alweendo, who served as Governor of the Bank of Namibia from 1997 to 2010 — one of the longer tenures in the institution's short history.
Pick 8 is the second substantive issue of the 50 Dollar denomination, superseding the 1993 inaugural series. Security provision remains relatively modest for the period: watermark and security thread only, without the foil elements or color-shifting ink that G&D was already supplying to other clients by this date.