Rwanda's post-genocide monetary rebuilding included a wholesale reissue of circulation coinage in the early 2000s, with the National Bank introducing updated legend formats to standardize the bilingual Kinyarwanda-French inscriptions that had appeared inconsistently across earlier series. The "Type 1 legend" designation distinguishes this issue from a subsequent variant — the difference lying in inscription spacing and abbreviation style rather than any change to the underlying monetary policy driving the reissue.
Rwanda's post-genocide monetary rebuilding included a wholesale reissue of circulation coinage in the early 2000s, with the National Bank introducing updated legend formats to standardize the bilingual Kinyarwanda-French inscriptions that had appeared inconsistently across earlier series. The "Type 1 legend" designation distinguishes this issue from a subsequent variant — the difference lying in inscription spacing and abbreviation style rather than any change to the underlying monetary policy driving the reissue.