Catalog
100 Francs overprint
| Issuer | Banque de la République du Burundi |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Reference(s) | P#17 |
| Obverse description | Blue intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint with black serial numbers. A front-facing portrait vignette of Prince Rwagasore occupies the centre, with the Prince Rwagasore Mausoleum in Bujumbura rendered in the background. A black overprint obscures the original bank title at top and bottom, replacing it with the new Republican institution name in both French and Kirundi. |
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| Reverse description | Green intaglio print over a red underprint. The coat of arms of Burundi is centred as the principal vignette, flanked by bilingual text in French and Kirundi. The reverse retains the original typography of the Kingdom-era note, which the obverse overprint was intended to supersede. |
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Pick 17 represents the transitional moment when Burundi's central bank overprinted existing 100 Francs notes to reflect the country's post-independence institutional reorganization. Burundi had separated its currency arrangements from Rwanda in 1964 following the dissolution of the shared Rwanda-Burundi franc, and these overprints were a practical stopgap while new engraved series were prepared.
The overprint mechanism was common across newly independent African states in the 1960s, but Burundi used it more than once in quick succession — this 1966 issue being among the later applications before fully designed replacement notes arrived.