Catalog
1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banki Nkuru y'u Rwanda / National Bank of Rwanda |
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| Year | 2019 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Predominantly blue, green, and orange tones with a guilloche underprint. The SPARK orbital satellite mission patch appears at upper left, while a vignette of the National Museum of Rwanda buildings in Butare occupies the central field. Kinyarwanda and French inscriptions frame the design, with the denomination stated as "AMAFARANGA IGIHUMBI." |
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| Obverse lettering | BANKI NKURU Y`U RWANDA IYI NOTI YEMEWE N`AMATEGEKO AMAFARANGA IGIHUMBI |
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Rwanda's 1000 Franc denomination has been in continuous issue since the 1970s, but the 2019 series marked a deliberate modernization push by the Banque Nationale — one tied closely to the country's broader Vision 2050 development program and its ambitions for financial inclusion in a population that had remained heavily cash-dependent. Giesecke+Devrient, who have supplied Rwandan currency across multiple series, produced this on cotton substrate with a relatively lean security specification for the denomination — the watermark being the primary listed feature, which is modest by current East African regional standards.
Rwanda's franc has been pegged informally against the dollar for much of the post-genocide recovery period, giving notes like this one a functional stability that earlier issues never enjoyed.