Catalog
500 Birr / Ethiopian Dollars
| Issuer | State Bank of Ethiopia |
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| Year | 1945-1956 |
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| In circulation to | September 1976 |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Emperor Haile Selassie I at left, with a central vignette of the Holy Trinity Church in Addis Ababa, all set against an intricate guilloche underprint. Bilingual inscriptions in Amharic and English appear above and below the central design, with the denomination stated in both scripts. |
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| Reverse description | Central oval intaglio vignette of the crowned Lion of Judah passant, bearing a cross-topped staff and banner, set against a mountainous landscape, enclosed within elaborate scrollwork and foliate ornamental borders. The numeral "500" appears in large stylized Ethiopic characters at left and right margins, with a dense guilloche underprint filling the field in olive-green tones. An Amharic inscription in a rectangular panel at the foot of the design states the denomination. |
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| Signature(s) | Blowers Bennett Rozell |
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