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20 Birr International Year of the Child, Piedfort
| Issuer | Ethiopia |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#P1 |
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| Reverse description | Four children depicted in high relief, engaged in play in a rural landscape setting; the group includes figures holding sticks and a racquet, rendered in a naturalistic style evoking daily life. A small globe emblem appears at the upper center of the field. The denomination legend 'Birr 20' is inscribed in Latin script along the lower exergue, with the value expressed in Ge'ez script at the upper portion of the field. |
| Reverse script | Ge'ez, Latin |
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Piedfort issues — struck at double the normal planchet thickness — were a specialty of the Franklin Mint during the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the firm aggressively courted developing-nation governments seeking prestige collector pieces. Ethiopia's participation in the International Year of the Child program (declared by the UN for 1979) produced this heavyweight variant alongside a standard-thickness version. The Franklin Mint's involvement meant tight quality control on the dies but equally aggressive distribution through subscription sales rather than conventional numismatic channels.
KM#P1 designation confirms it as Ethiopia's first catalogued piedfort.