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20 Nakfa
| Issuer | Bank of Eritrea |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Value | 20 Nakfa |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown and black on multicolor underprint, with a central vignette of three young girls; a flag-raising scene appears at left, accompanied by a vertical Kinnegram foil strip. The multicolor guilloche underprint provides the primary tonal foundation across the face. Denominations and issuer inscriptions are rendered in both Latin and Tigrinya scripts. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security foil strip |
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Eritrea's 2015 note series came fifteen years after the country's painful monetary rupture with Ethiopia — the 2000 introduction of the Nakfa effectively severed the last financial tie following the 1998–2000 border war, and these later-dated notes continue that independent issuance without revision to the series architecture. Giesecke & Devrient printed the note at their Leipzig facility, a distinction worth noting: G&D's Munich address is corporate, but production has long run through Leipzig.
Clarence Holbert, an American designer with a substantial portfolio of African banknote work, handled the design — his name appears on notes for several sub-Saharan issuers across the same period.