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500 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Nationale du Rwanda |
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| Year | 1974 |
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| Value | 500 Francs |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of President Juvénal Habyarimana in military uniform at left, set within a lozenge-shaped vignette against crossed flags and a guilloche underprint in salmon and green tones. The denomination CINQ CENTS FRANCS appears in bold letterpress at centre-right above the date 19-4-74, enclosed within an ornate guilloche cartouche inscribed PAYABLES A VUE. Two facsimile signatures of the Administrateur and Gouverneur are printed in the lower panel, flanked by the serial number repeated at left-centre and lower right. |
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| Reverse description | At left, an intaglio vignette of a woman carrying a large woven basket balanced on her head, holding a staff, rendered in fine line engraving against a pastoral background of a tea plantation with rows of low shrubs and tall trees receding into the distance. A circular guilloche rosette at right bears the numeral 500 at its centre, with the Kinyarwanda denomination AMAFRANGA 500 in a bold panel below. |
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| Protection description | Impala head. |
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