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2000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de la République du Burundi |
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| Year | 2015-2023 |
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| Currency | Franc (1962-date) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red, violet, and green with a violet guilloche underprint; red and black serial numbers. A vignette of a pineapple plant (Ananas comosus) with fruit occupies the right portion of the note, while a leaping kudu antelope (Tragelaphus sp.) appears above the coat of arms of Burundi at upper left. The Flag of Burundi is positioned at lower right, a windowed security thread bearing the bank monogram and a cow-head device runs vertically through the note, a fish-shaped see-through register feature appears at lower left, and a pineapple-shaped metallic foil patch is affixed at right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread, Hologram |
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The P#52 series replaced the previous 2000 Francs issue that had circulated since the early 2000s, arriving during a period of acute political instability — the 2015 constitutional crisis and the violence surrounding President Nkurunziza's contested third term severely disrupted normal economic activity, and banknote production continued largely as a bureaucratic continuity measure rather than in response to healthy monetary demand.
Burundi's currency has been chronically pressured by one of the lowest GDP per capita figures on the continent, and the 2000 Franc denomination, while nominally significant, represented only a fraction of meaningful purchasing power by the time later dates in this series entered circulation.