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2000 Francs Small
| Issuer | Banque de la République du Burundi |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Value | 2000 Francs |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE LA REPUBLIQUE DU BURUNDI IBANKI YA REPUBLIKA Y`UBURUNDI DEUX MILLE FRANCS AMAFRANGA IBIHUMBI BIBIRI UBUMWE - IBIKORWA - AMAJAMBERE UNITE - TRAVAIL - PROGRESS 01-12-2008 LE GOUVERNEUR LE 1er VICE-GOUVERNEUR 2000 (Translation: Bank of the Republic of Burundi. Two thousand francs. Unity work progress. The governor, the 1st vice governor.) |
| Reverse description | Green and blue print. A central vignette presents a lake and dam composition, rendered in a landscape format. Bilingual legends in French and Kirundi are arranged within the border design, accompanied by the denomination numeral 2000. |
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The "Small" designation in the catalog name distinguishes this from the earlier, larger-format 2000 Francs notes and reflects a deliberate reduction in note dimensions that Burundi adopted as part of broader regional harmonization efforts in the 2000s. The redesigned series introduced tighter security specifications, though for a country that had only recently emerged from a protracted civil conflict — the Arusha Peace Agreement was signed in 2000 — rebuilding institutional confidence in the currency was as much a political matter as a technical one.
Watermark-only security on a denomination of this value was already considered minimal by contemporary central bank standards, a constraint almost certainly tied to printing contract costs rather than oversight.