Product Description
SCWPM.#36c - TBB.#B136c - Date: 1-12-2005Grade: Unc. - Signature: 10 - Prefix: BC
Description: Colour: Green. - Front: Fish as registration device; three men with fishing net in a small boat on Lake Malawi; John Chilembwe. - Back: Pamtondo, three women and child grinding maize into flour with poles (food security); bank logo; fish. - Windowed security thread with demetalized RBM. - Watermark: Chilembwe. - Printer: Unknown. - Size: 126 x 63 mm. - Material: paper.
General information: 1997 - 2005 Issues
This new series features a portrait of Reverend John Chilembwe, an orthodox Baptist educator and an early figure in resistance to colonialism in Nyasaland. Today John Chilembwe is celebrated as a hero for independence, and John Chilembwe Day is observed annually on 15 January. The windowed security thread in these notes is now demetalized with the banks initials.
Source: The Banknotebook.
