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50 Piastres
| Issuer | Sudan Government |
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| Year | 1955 |
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| Value | 50 Piastres (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette, executed in fine green intaglio, presents a robed camel rider armed with a lance set against a desert landscape. The legend 'SUDAN GOVERNMENT' arches across the upper panel and 'FIFTY PIASTRES' runs along the lower panel in bold serif lettering, with the denomination '50' repeated within foliate guilloche corner pieces; the printer's imprint appears at the foot. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Sudan's 1955 currency issues appeared in a peculiarly compressed political window — after the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium Agreement of 1953 set self-governance in motion but before formal independence on 1 January 1956. The Sudan Government notes of this transitional period were therefore issued by an administration that was neither colonial nor yet fully sovereign, a status with no clean parallel in the region's monetary history.
Waterlow & Sons had printed currency for the Sudan Currency Board going back decades, so the contract continuity here is unsurprising. What is notable is how short the effective issue life was — independence brought an almost immediate move toward establishing the Bank of Sudan, and these transitional government notes were superseded quickly.
Pick lists this as P#A2, indicating an early or provisional classification — likely reflecting incomplete documentation at the time the catalog entry was first established.