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10 Birr / Ethiopian Dollars
| Issuer | National Bank of Ethiopia |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Emperor Haile Selassie I in military uniform at right, with a vignette of the National Bank building in Addis Ababa at left centre. The note is printed in red-brown tones with guilloche underprint, serial number appearing twice, and a GOVERNOR signature line below the central inscription panel. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Lion of Judah passant, crowned and carrying a cross-topped staff, set within a circular guilloche frame surmounted by a star. The design is printed in a uniform red-brown intaglio style with ornate lathe-work borders flanking the central motif. |
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This series was issued following the re-denomination of Ethiopian currency in 1945, when the Ethiopian Dollar replaced the East African shilling at a fixed rate — but the 1966 notes represent a later printing refresh under Emperor Haile Selassie I's government, produced by De La Rue at a moment of relative monetary stability before the political turbulence of the following decade. Ethiopia retained De La Rue through successive note generations largely due to the printer's long relationship with the imperial court.
The watermark is the sole machine-readable security measure in the series — no security thread, no fluorescent ink.