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100 Nakfa
| Issuer | Bank of Eritrea |
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| Year | 2011 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of three Eritrean women in traditional dress and jewelry rendered in fine intaglio engraving, with the central figure facing front and two others in profile. To the left, an oval vignette illustrates soldiers planting the Eritrean flag on a rocky outcrop, set against a light guilloche underprint. A camel vignette appears in orange at right, alongside the date 24.5.2011 in red, with two facsimile signatures below the oval vignette captioned PRESIDENT and GOVERNOR. |
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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.