Botswana’s Commemorative Banknote Features ANIMA™

The Bank of Botswana has unveiled a 50 pula banknote commemorating its first Olympic gold medallist, sprinter Letsile Tebogo, who won the 200 metres, and the men’s 4 x 400 metre relay team that he anchored to a silver medal, at the Paris Olympic Games last year.

For the relay, he ran the second fasters relay split in history. The 50 pula note was announced on the day of the Bank’s 50th anniversary celebrations.

The front features the Bank’s redeveloped headquarters building and the Motswedi diamond, the second largest diamond ever found in the world, unearthed in Botswana’s Karowe Diamond Mine. The reverse depicts Letsile Tebogo along with his teammates.

In terms of security features, the current holographic stripe on the front of the existing 50 pula has been replaced with Oberthur’s Anima™ micro-lens thread that displays an animated effect of a man running.