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100 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 | A standing warrior in traditional dress occupies the centre-right of the note, with a bouquet of flowers at the right margin; a lion's head vignette appears in the left-centre underprint, accompanied by a map of Ethiopia at the left. The design is framed with fine guilloche work and carries bilingual inscriptions in Amharic and English. |
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| Reverse lettering | መቶ፡ብር፡ ፻፡ብር 100 (Translation: Hundred Birr 100 Birr) |
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P#40 belongs to the series issued under the Derg regime's socialist government, which had renamed the institution from the State Bank of Ethiopia and was operating the currency under tight ideological constraints — foreign-printed notes from a London security printer sat uneasily alongside Marxist-Leninist rhetoric about self-reliance. Thomas De La Rue had supplied Ethiopian notes for decades by this point, and the relationship simply continued despite the political transformation of 1974.
The watermark-only security specification is notably sparse for a high-denomination note of this period, reflecting either budgetary constraints or the limited sophistication of anticounterfeiting infrastructure available to the regime at the time.