50 Pula

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.