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10 Birr Arms with plough, Red sides
| Issuer | National Bank of Ethiopia |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Value | 10 Birrs (አስር፡ብር) (10 ETB) |
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| Reverse lettering | አሥር፡ብር፡ ፲፡ብር 10 (Translation: Ten Birr 10 Birr) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Ethiopia's 1977 banknote series was issued under the Derg military government, which had deposed Haile Selassie in 1974 and was in the process of dismantling the imperial monetary identity — hence the replacement of the emperor's portrait with national emblems and agricultural imagery. The decision to retain Thomas De La Rue as printer despite the regime's Marxist-Leninist orientation was purely pragmatic; no domestic printing capacity existed, and Soviet-bloc alternatives were not yet in play.
P#32 is the first 10 Birr issue under the new republic. The watermark is a simple repeated pattern, consistent with De La Rue's economical security specification for lower-denomination African contracts of this period.