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1000 Francs Gorilla
| Issuer | National Bank of Rwanda |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Weight | 93.3 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | BANKI NASIYONALI Y'U RWANDA REPUBLIKA Y'U RWANDA UBUMWE-UMURIMO-GUKUNDA IGIHUGU AMAFARANGA 1000 IGIHUMBI |
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Rwanda's central bank partnered with the Bavarian State Mint for this issue, part of a broader wave of African wildlife bullion-adjacent commemoratives that flooded the collector market in the late 2000s. The four embedded diamonds are genuine, though modest in carat weight — their inclusion was a marketing differentiator in a crowded field of large-format silver with precious-metal plating.
Rwanda held no meaningful domestic minting infrastructure in 2008; the coin was struck entirely in Munich.