En skum bank....

2005 hände något konstigt i Sudan. Sedlar från en icke-existerande centralbank i det splittrade landet börja synas. Så här står att läsa på några platser på nätet. Du får också en länk...

"In 2005 new banknotes supposedly issued by the Bank of New Sudan were seen circulating in the southern parts of the country. There is no such bank. Numbers of the banknotes had duplicate serial numbers. Are they bogus? Here is a photo of some of the (200 pound) notes: http://www.npr.org/news/images/2005/may/31/sudan_money400.jpg"

Jag ska försöka ta reda på mer om detta...

Nedan kan du dock läsa om en annan pund. Den som introducerades på ett korrekt sätt av den sudanesiska centralbanken 10/1 2007.

Ny valuta är under introduktion

Så här skriver www.sudantribune.com i en artikel.

"Sudan will introduce a new ’pound’ currency to replace the current ’dinar’ from Jan. 10, at a cost of $150 million, Central Bank Governor Sabir Mohamed Hassan said on Monday. The new currency was agreed under a north-south peace deal. The dinar, introduced in 1992, was seen by ethnic African southerners as a symbol of what they called an Arabisation policy by Khartoum’s Islamist government.

"The pound will be introduced and the dinar withdrawn gradually," Hassan told reporters in Khartoum on Monday. The dinar would be finally withdrawn by June 30, 2007, he said. The new currency would be used in both northern and Southern Sudan. One new Sudanese pound would equal 100 Sudanese dinar. The new currency include six denominations of one pound, two pounds, five pounds, ten pounds, twenty pounds and fifty pounds."

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En annan sida (från nyhetsagenturen afrol news) skriver så här: "The new Sudanese pound is worth exactly hundred times the currently used dinar, meaning that 100 dinar bills will be changed into new one-pound banknotes. One-dinar coins - the lowest entity in circulation - will be changed into one-piaster coins. The largest banknotes issued are denominated 50 pounds (approximately euro 18 or US$ 23)."

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Nu är du förstås nyfiken på hur en sådan här ny sedel ser ut... Här har du en:

SAKNAS

One new Sudanese pound 2007

Bildtexten lyder: People jostle to exchange their old Sudanese Dinars into the newly introduced Sudanese Pounds at the Ivory Bank in Juba, June 28, 2007.

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