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| Uitgever | State Bank of Ethiopia |
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| Jaar | 1945-1956 |
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| Waarde | 10 Dollars (፲ ብር) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Portrait of Emperor Haile Selassie I at left, with an equestrian statue of Emperor Menelik II in St. George's Square at centre and a building visible in the background. The design is framed with ornamental guilloche borders typical of Security Banknote Company engraving work. Issuer name and denomination appear in both Amharic script and English letterpress. |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | ፲፡ብር አሥር፡የኢትዮጵያ፡ብር፡ (Translation: 10 Birr Ten Ethiopian Birr) |
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| Opmerkingen |
Ethiopia's postwar monetary infrastructure was thin, and the State Bank of Ethiopia — established in 1942 as a joint venture with the National Bank of Egypt — served simultaneously as central and commercial bank until the two functions were formally separated in 1963. The dual denomination on this note, pairing Birr with Ethiopian Dollars, reflects a deliberate transitional nomenclature: the Maria Theresa thaler had dominated Ethiopian commerce for centuries, and local acceptance of a paper birr required anchoring it to something already legible to a skeptical public.
Security Banknote Company of Philadelphia printed several African issues during this period, but their Ethiopian work is among the less-documented commissions in the firm's history. Three distinct signature combinations — Blowers, Bennett, and Rozell — indicate the series spans multiple senior appointments at the bank across its eleven-year run.