Vorderseite: Palme vor dem Hintergrund einer großen aufgehenden Sonne; Nominale innerhalb eines Kranzes aus Blättern.
Rückseite: Nominale innerhalb eines Manillas, eines traditionellen westafrikanischen Zahlungsmittels aus Kupfer oder Bronze in der Form eines offenen Armreifs; Vier junge Mädchen vom afrikanischen Stamm der Ibo.

Front side: Palm tree and a stylized large rising sun in the background; Denomination in the center of a circle made of leaves.
Back side: Denomination in the center of a manilla, a traditional West African means of payment made of copper or bronze in the shape of a armlet with an opening; Four young Ibo girls.

B101a

Not dated.
Signatures of Sylvester U. Ugoh (as GOVERNOR) and William Okefie Uzoaga (as DIRECTOR). No watermark. Printed Morse Code security thread on the front side. Two black horizontal 7-digit serial numbers on the front side. Both have a fractional prefix and digits of the same size. Unknown printer.

Remarks

Introduced on 29. January 1968.

The bold text at the beginning of the description of every variety indicates those elements, which are necessary to identify the correct variety (if any) without any doubt. The date or the remark Not dated is always given.
[Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (P-1); Banknote Book (B101)]