1⁄32 Birr - Menelik II

Ethiopia's small copper fractions were struck in Paris at the Monnaie de Paris under a series of agreements tied to the reign of Menelik II — though Menelik himself died in 1913, leaving these posthumous issues to circulate under Regent Tafari Makonnen, who was consolidating power through exactly the decade this coin saw production. The continued use of Menelik's name on coinage into the 1930s reflects a deliberate political continuity, not administrative inertia.

The EE calendar dating on Ethiopian coinage routinely confuses the Gregorian conversion; the range KM#11 spans corresponds to Ethiopian years 1914–1925.