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5000 Francs PZL P.11
| Issuer | Burundi |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#34 |
| Obverse description | At the center of the field, a stylized lion head faces forward, with the national motto of Burundi inscribed below in three segments separated by decorative flourishes. Surrounding the central device, a semicircular legend at the top reads REPUBLIC OF BURUNDI with the date 2014, while the denomination 5000 Francs and the fineness inscription 20g 999 Silver appear in the lower portion of the field. |
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| Reverse description | The upper two-thirds of the reverse feature a colorized photographic-style depiction of the PZL P.11 Polish fighter aircraft in flight, with the aircraft's designation PZL P.11 inscribed in the field. The lower third displays a stylized technical schematic rendering of a Second World War-era fighter aircraft. A reeded border is decorated with compass-rose motifs arranged as dentils around the periphery, and the legend HISTORY OF AVIATION appears in the lower exergue. |
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Burundi's aviation-themed numismatic program produced several issues commemorating early Polish military aircraft, the PZL P.11 among them. The P.11 was the primary fighter of the Polish Air Force during the German invasion of September 1939 — badly outclassed by the Luftwaffe's Bf 109s yet responsible for roughly 110 aerial kills in three weeks of desperate combat before surviving airframes were evacuated to Romania.