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5000 Francs Kawasaki KI-100
| Issuer | Banque de la République du Burundi |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF BURUNDI 2015 UNITÉ ~ TRAVAIL ~ PROGRÈS ~5000 Francs ~ 20g 999 Silver ~ (Translation: REPUBLIC OF BURUNDI 2015 UNITY ~ WORK ~ PROGRESS ~5000 Francs ~ 20g 999 Silver ~) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Ki-100 was a late-war Japanese Army interceptor born from necessity rather than design: Kawasaki had a surplus of Ki-61 airframes but a critical shortage of the liquid-cooled engines they were built around. Engineers grafted a Mitsubishi radial engine onto the existing fuselage in a matter of weeks, and the resulting aircraft outperformed nearly everything Japan had left flying in 1945. Burundi's inclusion of this aircraft in a numismatic series is a purely commercial decision — the country has no historical connection to the Pacific air war whatsoever.