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50 Dollars Emperor Yohannes IV
| Issuer | Ethiopia |
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| Year | 1972 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#56 |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 1972 - - 12,000 |
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Issued under Haile Selassie's government in the name of Emperor Yohannes IV as part of a commemorative series marking the 1972 Ethiopian Numismatic Society convention, this coin belongs to a set celebrating Ethiopia's nineteenth-century rulers. Yohannes IV defeated the Egyptian army at Gundet in 1875 and Gura in 1876 — two victories that secured Ethiopia's northern frontier — before dying at the Battle of Metemma in 1889 against Mahdist Sudanese forces, his death opening the succession crisis that brought Menelik II to power.