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10 Birrs Arms with plough, White hatched sides
| Issuer | National Bank of Ethiopia |
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| Year | 1987 |
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| Currency | Birr (1976-date) |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a young woman seated at her craft, engaged in traditional basket weaving before a large, intricately patterned basket rendered in intaglio; a decorative wicker vessel forms a secondary vignette at the right margin against a guilloche underprint in deep red. The National Bank of Ethiopia title runs across the top in both Amharic script and Latin lettering, with the denomination and legal tender inscription centred in the lower field. Two serial numbers are printed in red, and a lion's head watermark device occupies the left margin area. |
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| Reverse lettering | አሥር፡ብር፡ ፲፡ብር 10 (Translation: Ten Birr 10 Birr) |
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Ethiopia's Derg regime — the military junta that had deposed Haile Selassie in 1974 — was still in power when this note was issued, which explains the socialist-era state arms replacing the imperial iconography of earlier series. Thomas De La Rue had printed Ethiopian currency through the imperial period as well, and the relationship continued without interruption through the political transformation, a commercial continuity that sat awkwardly alongside the regime's ideological posturing.
The P#38 series is the last De La Rue-printed issue before Ethiopia's banknote contracts shifted in the early 1990s.