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10 Nakfa
| Issuer | Bank of Eritrea |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Value | 10 Nakfa |
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| Obverse lettering | STATE OF ERITREA Legal tender of Eritrea TEN NAKFA PRESIDENT GOVERNOR 24.5.2015 ናቕፋ نقفا |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF ERITREA TEN NAKFA 10 |
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Eritrea's 2015 note series came fifteen years into an effectively closed economy — the country had suspended private banking, frozen foreign currency accounts, and implemented some of the world's most restrictive currency controls by that point. The 10 Nakfa exists less as a functioning trade instrument than as a managed rationing token in a state where cash withdrawals had been capped and parallel exchange rates operated far above any official figure.
Giesecke & Devrient have produced every Eritrean note series since independence. That continuity is notable given how few other suppliers the Eritrean government has worked with across two decades of international isolation.