Brown print; multicolour underprint; black serial numbers. Native art at left. Text in French and Kirundi. Windowed security thread.
Reverse description
Blue print; multicolour underprint. Bank building at centre, coat of arms of Burundi at right.
Signature(s)
Spes Bibara, Gaspard Sindayigaya, Melchior Wagara, Jean Gaspard Ciza,
Protection type
Watermark
Protection description
Zebu head.
Obverse lettering
BANQUE DE LA REPUBLIQUE DU BURUNDI
IBANKI YA REPUBLIKA YUBURUNDI
CINQ CENTS FRANCS
AMAFRANGA AMAJAN` ATANU
31-10-2013
LE 1er VICE-GOUVERNEUR LE GOUVERNEUR
500 (Translation: Bank of the Republic of Burundi. Five hundred francs. The 1st vice governor, the governor.)
Reverse lettering
BANQUE DE LA REPUBLIQUE DU BURUNDI
IBANKI YA REPUBLIKA YUBURUNDI
UBUMWE - IBIKORWA - AMAJAMBERE
UNITE - TRAVAIL - PROGRESS
LE CONTREFACTEUR EST PUNI DE SERVITUDE PENALE
UWUZOKWIGANA IYI NOTI AZOFUNGWA
500 (Translation: Bank of the Republic of Burundi. Unity work progress. The counterfeiter is punished with penal servitude.)