Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
500 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Nationale du Rwanda |
|---|---|
| Year | 1974 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Franc (1964-date) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Banque Nationale du Rwanda CINQ CENTS FRANCS PAYABLES A VUE LA LOI PUNIT LE CONTREFACTEUR (Translation: National Bank of Rwanda FIVE HUNDRED FRANCS PAYABLE ON DEMAND COUNTERFEITING IS PUNISHABLE BY LAW) |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Impala head. |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Rwanda's first post-independence banknote series was issued by the Banque Nationale du Rwanda following its establishment in 1964, but this 1974 dated 500 Francs belongs to a later printing cycle, when the country was still heavily reliant on external security printers for all its paper currency needs. Thomas De La Rue had supplied Rwanda from the beginning of the series, and P#11 continues that relationship without interruption.
Watermark security is the sole anti-counterfeiting measure — no security thread, no fluorescent inks. By mid-1970s standards, a modest specification, though not unusual for lower-denomination African issues of the period.