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20 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Nationale du Rwanda |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#15, Schön#17 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | 20 VINGT FRANCS RÉPUBLIQUE RWANDAISE LIBERTÉ · COOPÉRATION · PROGRÈS (Translation: Twenty francs. Republic of Rwanda. Freedom · Cooperation · Progress.) |
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Rwanda's 1977 coinage was issued amid the relative political stability of Juvénal Habyarimana's single-party state, which had consolidated power following the 1973 coup. The Banque Nationale du Rwanda contracted production abroad — Rwandan coins of this period were struck at the Monnaie de Paris — as the country had no domestic minting capability.
Brass issues from this series circulated hard in a cash-dependent rural economy and survivors in undamaged condition are less common than the modest collector interest in Rwandan coinage might suggest.