Catalog
2000 Francs
| Issuer | National Bank of Rwanda |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Printer | Giesecke & Devrient, Leipzig |
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| Obverse description | Blue on violet underprint with black serial numbers at upper right and lower left. A vignette of communication antennas occupies the central field, with a reflective security foil strip at left bearing repeating 'BNR' and '2000' devices. Legends in Kinyarwanda appear across the note face. |
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| Reverse description | Blue on violet and purple underprint. The central design features a vignette of coffee beans, a principal agricultural motif of Rwanda. A segmented foil security thread is embedded at left, bearing repeating '2000' inscriptions. |
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Rwanda's 2007 series was the first full redesign since the post-genocide monetary reconstruction of the mid-1990s, when the National Bank had to replace a currency stock that had been looted, destroyed, and counterfeited on a significant scale during and after 1994. Giesecke & Devrient, who had printed Rwandan notes through much of that difficult transition period, retained the contract here.
The "Printed: 30.04.1945" date in the source data is clearly erroneous — almost certainly a cataloging artifact — and should not be taken as a literal production date.