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1000 Francs Lion
| Issuer | National Bank of Rwanda |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | AFRICAN LION 2008 |
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Rwanda's National Bank issued this piece as part of a wave of high-denomination novelty bullion struck for the collector market by small African nations in the mid-2000s — a revenue model with almost no connection to domestic monetary policy. The four embedded diamonds are a marketing conceit tied to Rwanda's proximity to the gem-producing regions of the eastern Congo, though Rwanda itself is not a significant diamond producer.
KM#53 is catalogued among a cluster of Rwandan issues from this period that were designed and distributed almost entirely by European minting and marketing intermediaries.