Catalog
1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de la République du Burundi |
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| Year | 1968-1976 |
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| Currency | Franc (1962-date) |
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| Obverse description | Blue intaglio print over a multicolour underprint, with black serial numbers. A vignette of a long-tailed paradise whydah (Vidua paradisaea) occupies the centre left, with a floral motif at right. Bilingual text in French and Kirundi appears across the note, with the issuing bank name and denomination inscribed along the upper and lower margins. |
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| Reverse description | Blue intaglio print over a multicolour underprint. The central vignette presents a herd of zebus (Bos taurus indicus) grazing in a pastoral landscape, with mountains rising in the background. Bilingual text in French and Kirundi is arranged along the margins, including the issuing bank name and an anti-counterfeiting warning. |
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Burundi's early post-independence note issues were produced against a backdrop of acute political instability — the Micombero coup of 1966 had abolished the monarchy and declared a republic just two years before this series entered circulation. The Banque de la République du Burundi itself was only established in 1966, replacing the earlier regional central bank structure shared with Rwanda, so this note belongs to the first generation of genuinely sovereign Burundian currency.
The series ran across an unusually long window for a country cycling through successive governments, suggesting the notes were simply reprinted or reissued as stock demanded rather than replaced with each political transition.