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1 Birr Arms with plough, White hatched sides
| Issuer | National Bank of Ethiopia |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Value | 1 Birr (አንድ፡ብር) (1 ETB) |
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| Obverse description | A young man is vignette at centre right, with longhorn cattle at right; a map of Ethiopia occupies the left field, with a lion's head rendered as an underprint at left centre. Bilingual inscriptions in Amharic and English frame the design, with the Ethiopia Tikdem (Ethiopia First) revolutionary motto appearing in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 አንድ፡ብር፡ ፩፡ብር (Translation: One Birr 1 Birr) |
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The 1977 Ethiopian 1 Birr was issued less than two years after the Derg military committee abolished the imperial currency system following Haile Selassie's removal. The birr name was retained, but the imagery was scrubbed of imperial symbolism and replaced with Marxist-influenced iconography reflecting the new junta's alignment with the Soviet bloc. Thomas De La Rue continued printing, as they had for the preceding imperial issues — a quiet commercial continuity beneath a dramatic political rupture.
The P#36 series is sometimes found with minor ink bleed along the hatched border areas, a known characteristic of the white-sided printing register on this type.