Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Pula
| Issuer | Bank of Botswana |
|---|---|
| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 50 Pula |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | 50 Bank of BOTSWANA MINISTER OF FINANCE GOVERNOR This note is legal tender for Fifty Pula |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Sir Seretse Khama's portrait visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The 2000 date on this note places it within a period of significant economic optimism for Botswana — diamond revenues had been driving some of the fastest GDP growth on the continent for nearly two decades, and the Pula itself, introduced in 1976 to replace the Rand at par, had become one of Africa's more stable currencies. François-Charles Oberthur in Rennes had by this point a long relationship with Francophone and Anglophone African issuers alike, and their work for the Bank of Botswana is competent if unremarkable.
Pick 22 is not a scarce note in circulated grades, though uncirculated examples with undamaged security thread are less common than the issue numbers suggest.