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50 Piastres
| Issuer | Bank of Sudan |
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| Year | 1981-1983 |
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| Currency | First pound (1956-1992) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Bank of Sudan headquarters building in Khartoum, rendered in blue-grey intaglio with palm trees to the left and deciduous trees to the right, flanked at each corner by elaborate purple-brown guilloche rosettes. The Sudanese state emblem appears at the top centre above the English inscription, and the denomination is stated in English below the building vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | BANK OF SUDAN بنك السودان Fifty Piastres 50 |
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The Bank of Sudan's early 1980s issues occupied an awkward transitional moment — the country was still operating with a relatively stable pound before the debt spiral and inflation of the mid-decade accelerated the series' obsolescence. Thomas De La Rue handled the printing throughout this period, a relationship dating back to Sudan's pre-independence note issues under the Sudan Currency Board.
P#17 carried a watermark security feature at a time when counterfeiting pressure on Sudanese currency was not yet acute — the more serious problems came later, particularly after 1985.