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100 Francs Shoebill
| Issuer | National Bank of Rwanda |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Weight | 31.10 g |
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| Obverse lettering | BANKI NKURU Y'U RWANDA REPUBLIKA Y'U RWANDA UBUMWI - UMURIMO - GUKUNDA IGIHUGU AMAFARANGA 100 IJANA (Translation: Central Bank of Rwanda. Republic of Rwanda. Unity work patriotism. One hundred francs.) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Rwanda's National Bank has issued a long-running series of gold coins featuring African wildlife, and the shoebill — a prehistoric-looking wading bird native to the swamps of central and eastern Africa, including Rwanda's own Akagera wetlands — is among the more unusual subjects in that series. The bird's taxonomic history is itself contested; classified variously with herons, storks, and pelicans before landing in its own monotypic family, Balaenicipitidae.