{"id":48455,"date":"2026-04-05T15:43:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=48455"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:43:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:43:02","slug":"botswana-new-sig-date-2021-50-pula-note-b126e-confirmed-duplicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=48455","title":{"rendered":"Botswana new 50-pula commemorative note (B131a) confirmed introduced 12.09.2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This 50-pula note commemorates the 50th anniversary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankofbotswana.bw\/press-release\/press-release-new-p50-commemorative-banknote\">Bank of Botswana<\/a> on front while the back celebrates Botswana\u2019s first-ever Olympic gold medalist, sprinter Letsile Tebogo, and his fellow Olympic teammates, Bayapo Ndori, Busang Kebinatshipi, and Anthony Pesela. This is the first commemorative note from Botswana.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1701\" height=\"848\" src=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Botswana_BOB_50_pula_2025.00.00_B131a_PNL_AR_3281136_f.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Botswana_BOB_50_pula_2025.00.00_B131a_PNL_AR_3281136_f.jpg 1701w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Botswana_BOB_50_pula_2025.00.00_B131a_PNL_AR_3281136_f-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Botswana_BOB_50_pula_2025.00.00_B131a_PNL_AR_3281136_f-768x383.jpg 768w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Botswana_BOB_50_pula_2025.00.00_B131a_PNL_AR_3281136_f-1536x766.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Botswana_BOB_50_pula_2025.00.00_B131a_PNL_AR_3281136_f-465x232.jpg 465w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Botswana_BOB_50_pula_2025.00.00_B131a_PNL_AR_3281136_f-695x346.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1701px) 100vw, 1701px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1701\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Botswana_BOB_50_pula_2025.00.00_B131a_PNL_AR_3281136_r.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Botswana_BOB_50_pula_2025.00.00_B131a_PNL_AR_3281136_r.jpg 1701w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Botswana_BOB_50_pula_2025.00.00_B131a_PNL_AR_3281136_r-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Botswana_BOB_50_pula_2025.00.00_B131a_PNL_AR_3281136_r-768x381.jpg 768w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Botswana_BOB_50_pula_2025.00.00_B131a_PNL_AR_3281136_r-1536x762.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Botswana_BOB_50_pula_2025.00.00_B131a_PNL_AR_3281136_r-465x231.jpg 465w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Botswana_BOB_50_pula_2025.00.00_B131a_PNL_AR_3281136_r-695x345.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1701px) 100vw, 1701px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>B131<\/strong> (PNL): <strong>50 pula<\/strong> (US$4.65)<br>Brown, green, and red. Front: English text; Bank of Botswana headquarters building in Gaborone; Motswedi diamond found at Karowe mine; shield with 50th anniversary logo; unknown registration device; coat of arms with zebras and shield. Back: English and Setswana text; Botswana\u2019s first-ever Olympic gold medalist, sprinter Letsile Tebogo; unknown registration device; silver medalists, relay runners Letsile Tebogo, Anthony Pesela, Busang Kebinatshipi, and Bayapo Ndori; flag of Botswana. ANIMA windowed security thread with demetalized <em>50<\/em> and animated running man. Watermark: Rearing zebra, electrotype <em>50, <\/em>and Cornerstones. Printer: <em>OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE<\/em>. 144 x 72 mm. Paper.<br>a. 2025. Sig. 13: Gaolathe\/Dekop. Intro: 12.09.2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtesy of Charles Toussaint, Petar Blagojevic, and Sven B\u00fcsselberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 50-pula note commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Bank of Botswana on front while the back celebrates Botswana\u2019s first-ever Olympic gold medalist, sprinter Letsile Tebogo, and his fellow Olympic teammates, Bayapo Ndori, Busang Kebinatshipi, and Anthony Pesela. This is the first commemorative note from Botswana. B131 (PNL): 50 pula<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=48455\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,337],"tags":[137],"class_list":["entry","author-owenink","post-48455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa","category-commemorative","category-new-note","tag-botswana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49764,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48455\/revisions\/49764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}