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500 Francs East African Railway
| Issuer | Banki Nkuru y'u Rwanda (National Bank of Rwanda) |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Value | 500 Francs |
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| Reverse lettering | EAST AFRICAN RAILWAY USAMBARABAHN 1893 - 1912 2008 |
| Edge | Reeded |
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Rwanda has no operational railway. The East African Railway depicted here refers to a long-discussed regional infrastructure project — the standard-gauge network intended to connect Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, and Tanzania — that remained largely unbuilt at the time of this coin's issue and for years afterward. Rwanda's participation in such commemorative issues during the late 2000s was partly a revenue strategy: the National Bank licensed numismatic programs specifically to generate foreign exchange, with the coins sold almost entirely to overseas collectors and never intended for domestic circulation.