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100 Dollars Pteranodon
| Issuer | Bank of Eritrea |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a scenic vignette depicting a traditional dhow under sail on calm waters, with a camel and palm tree in the left foreground and seabirds in flight above, all set against a polished proof field. The date 1993 appears in the lower portion of the central scene, with the Pobjoy Mint mark (PM) nearby. The legend ERITREA arcs along the upper border in Latin script, flanked by a row of stars forming an inner beaded border. The country name is additionally rendered in Ge'ez (Ethiopic) script on the left and Arabic script on the right, completing the trilingual inscription around the periphery. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Eritrea declared independence from Ethiopia in May 1993 after a 30-year armed conflict — one of Africa's longest liberation wars — and the Bank of Eritrea was established almost immediately as part of asserting the new state's institutional existence. These early gold issues, including the dinosaur-themed series, were produced not for domestic circulation but for the international collector market, a revenue strategy common among newly independent nations with limited foreign exchange. The Pteranodon, technically a flying reptile rather than a dinosaur, appears in several such collector series of the period with no particular connection to Eritrean natural history.