100 Birr / Ethiopian Dollars

Ethiopia was still an imperial state under Haile Selassie when this note was issued, and the National Bank operated under tight palace influence — monetary policy was hardly independent in any functional sense. De La Rue handled Ethiopian printing through much of the Selassie period, producing a consistent series that would be abruptly superseded after the 1974 Derg coup rendered the imperial currency politically toxic almost overnight.

The dual denomination — Birr and Ethiopian Dollars — reflects a transitional naming convention as Ethiopia moved to align its currency terminology regionally. Pick 29 is the last issue of this denomination before that political rupture made continuity impossible.