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500 Francs Lion
| Issuer | Banque Nationale du Rwanda |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Rwanda is depicted centrally in high relief, featuring a shield bearing a knot motif, flanked by two coffee branches, with a sun rising above and a rope knotted at the base. The inner legend reads REPUBULIKA Y'U RWANDA along the upper arc of the shield, and UBUMWE-UMURIMO-GUKUNDA IGIHUGU along the lower arc. The upper field carries the legend BANKI NKURU Y'U RWANDA in large raised letters arcing across the top of the coin. The denomination AMAFARANGA 500 MAGANA ATANU is inscribed in the lower field in bold relief. The design is presented in a proof-like finish with a deeply mirrored field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Rwanda's postgenocide economic rebuild included an aggressive push into the commemorative bullion market through the mid-2000s and into the 2010s, with the Banque Nationale contracting European private mints — primarily B.H. Mayer's Kunstprägeanstalt in Munich — to produce collector issues carrying Rwandan nominal values that bore no relationship to domestic circulation. The 500 francs denomination on issues like this one represented roughly two to three times the average daily wage in Rwanda at the time of issue, making the face value a legal fiction maintained purely for licensing purposes.