Catalog
100 Nakfa
| Issuer | Bank of Eritrea |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Currency | Nakfa (1997-date) |
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| Reverse description | Central engraved vignette of a farmer guiding a wooden plow drawn by two oxen across an open field, with livestock and herdsmen visible in the background. A red camel vignette appears at lower left, and a circular decorative emblem is positioned at lower right. The design is set against a fine geometric guilloche underprint in beige tones. |
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| Protection type | Security thread, Watermark |
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Eritrea's 2011 note issue was the second complete redesign since the nakfa's introduction in 1997, following a shorter-lived 2004 series. The nakfa itself replaced the Ethiopian birr after Eritrea's formal independence was confirmed by a 1993 referendum, though the currency wasn't actually launched until November 1997 — a four-year gap that reflected the difficulty of establishing monetary infrastructure from scratch in one of Africa's newest states.
Giesecke & Devrient have handled Eritrean banknote production since the original series, giving the country's entire paper currency history a single printer.