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400 Birr International Year of the Child
| Issuer | National Bank of Ethiopia |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Value | 400 Birrs (፬፻፡ብር) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the official UNICEF International Year of the Child emblem: a stylized figure of an adult raising a child above its head, enclosed within a wreath of two olive branches. Above the central device, the state emblem of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia appears in miniature. The surrounding legend reads in Ge'ez script at the top and 'SOCIALIST ETHIOPIA' in Latin characters along the lower periphery, with the Ethiopian calendar date ፲፱፻፸፪ (1972 E.C.) rendered in Ge'ez numerals at the bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | የኢትዮጵያ ህዝባዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ / SOCIALIST ETHIOPIA / ፲፱፻፸፪ |
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The International Year of the Child was declared by the United Nations for 1979, and Ethiopia's commemorative issue followed in 1980 — a striking choice of subject for a country then in the grip of the Derg military junta, which had deposed Haile Selassie in 1974 and presided over a famine and Red Terror campaign that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, many of them children. Mintages for Ethiopian gold commemoratives of this period were low, produced largely for the export collector market rather than domestic circulation.