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100 Cents
| Issuer | Bank of Eritrea |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Thickness | 2.7 mm |
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| Obverse description | A female African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana africana) accompanied by a calf, depicted in left profile within the coin's field. The design is rendered in a naturalistic style with fine detail in the animals' hides and musculature. The legend STATE OF ERITREA arcs along the upper periphery, with the denomination ONE HUNDRED CENTS and numeral 100 inscribed in the lower field, and the date 1997 positioned above the denomination. |
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| Edge | Milled |
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Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993 following a thirty-year armed struggle, making it one of Africa's newest nations at the time this coin was struck. The Bank of Eritrea was established almost immediately after independence, and this 1997 issue belongs to the country's first circulating coinage series — a deliberate assertion of economic separateness from Ethiopia, which had used the birr as its currency throughout the occupation period.
The nakfa, introduced in 1997 to replace the Ethiopian birr at par, triggered an immediate currency dispute with Ethiopia that contributed directly to the outbreak of the Eritrea-Ethiopia War in 1998.