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Ethiopian birr

Ethiopian birr: a currency still in use.

Dates in use
Still in use; introduction date not established here
Currency code
ETB
Ancestry branch
Indian rupee
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The story

The issuer's history dates the introduction of its described 1945 banknote series to 23 July 1945. [1]

Ethiopian birr → nakfa, 1997. [2]

Sources and evidence

  1. National Bank of Ethiopia · Bank Notes C585 ↗
  2. Deutsche Bundesbank · Metadata on the Exchange Rate Statistics, 24 September 2025 C1129 ↗

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“Ethiopian birr.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000237.html

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