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50 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de la République du Burundi |
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| Year | 1994-2007 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown intaglio print over multicolour guilloche underprint. A vignette at left shows a man paddling a canoe, while the Burundian coat of arms appears at lower centre. Bilingual text in French and Kirundi frames the design, with the issuing authority title across the upper border. |
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| Reverse description | Brown intaglio print over multicolour guilloche underprint. The central vignette presents four men alongside a canoe, with a hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) rendered in frontal view at right. Bilingual anti-counterfeiting text in French and Kirundi runs along the lower border, with the denomination numeral repeated at lower right. |
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Pick 36 was issued across a remarkably long print run — over a decade of continuous production without a redesign, which for a Central African issuer of this period is unusual. Burundi's monetary history through the 1990s and into the 2000s was shaped by the civil conflict that began in 1993, and low-denomination notes like this one were the workhorses of daily trade during a period when inflation and instability steadily eroded purchasing power.
The 50-franc note increasingly lost practical utility as the years passed — by the mid-2000s it bought almost nothing — yet remained in print, likely for reasons of institutional inertia rather than genuine economic need.