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1 Birr
| Issuer | National Bank of Ethiopia |
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| Year | 1997-2008 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At center-right, an intaglio vignette of a young man is the principal motif, flanked at right by a pair of longhorn cattle; a lion's head rendered as a pale underprint occupies center-left. Fine guilloche borders frame the composition, and bilingual legends in Amharic and English appear across the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | ፩፡ብር የኢትዮጵያ ብሔራዊ ባንክ National Bank of Ethiopia ላምጪው፡አንዴከፈል፡ሕግ፡ያሰገዽዷል። Payable to bearer on demand አንድ፡ብር፡ ONE BIRR 1 (Translation: 1 Birr National Bank of Ethiopia Payable to bearer on demand One Birr) |
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Pick 46 spans over a decade of issue, during which printing responsibility was shared between Thomas De La Rue and Giesecke & Devrient — an arrangement that produced measurable differences in ink saturation and paper feel between print runs, though both printers worked from the same approved design. Collectors who assemble sets by printer origin find the attribution frustrating, as the notes carry no visible printer's imprint to distinguish them.
The 1 Birr denomination has historically seen the heaviest circulation of the Ethiopian series, and surviving examples from the early 1997 printings frequently show accelerated wear along the horizontal fold lines.