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20 Francs
| Issuer | Banque du Royaume du Burundi |
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| Year | 1964-1965 |
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| Size | 140 x 75 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DU ROYAUME DU BURUNDI VINGT FRANCS AMAFRANGA MIRONG`IBIRI IBANKI Y`INGOMA Y`UBURUNDI LE VICE-PRESIDENT LE PRESIDENT 20-11-64 20 (Translation: Bank of the Kingdom of Burundi. Twenty francs. The vice president, the president.) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANQUE DU ROYAUME DU BURUNDI IBANKI Y`INGOMA Y` UBURUNDI LE CONTREFACTEUR SERA PUNIT DE SERVITUDE PENALE UWUZOKWIGANA IYI NOTI AZOFUNGWA ROYAUME DU BURUNDI GANZA SABWA 20 (Translation: Bank of the Kingdom of Burundi. The counterfeiter is punished with penal servitude. Kingdom of Burundi. Rules and reigns.) |
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Burundi gained independence in 1962, and the Banque du Royaume du Burundi — a royalist institution under Mwami Mwambutsa IV — operated for only a few years before the 1966 coup abolished the monarchy and prompted a complete currency replacement. Notes from this brief window are consequently scarce in any grade, simply because the series had a short issuance life and the successor republic wasted little time demonetizing them.
Thomas De La Rue handled printing for numerous newly independent African states in this period, often working from designs commissioned in London before the issuing infrastructure existed on the ground.