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Ethiopia banknotes
Ethiopia money catalog and Ethiopian currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Thaler 1893 = 16 Gersh (Piastres), 1893-1930
  • Ethiopian Dollar =(0.66 Talari) = 100 Cents, 1945-1976
  • Birr = (Dollar) = 100 Senteems, from 1976

• For Italian Occupation 1936-1941 see:
  • Italian East Africa, 1936-1941
• For issues of seced Eritrea see:
  • Eritrea, from 1993

• To purchase Ethiopian banknotes, please check our inventory :
  World banknotes countries A-Z

Pick #	Date
		Kingdom
1-5	1915-29	5, 10, 50, 100, 500 Thalers
6-11	1932-35	2, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 Thalers
12-17	(1945)	1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 dollars
18-24	(1961)	1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 dollars
25-29	(1966)	1, 5, 10, 50, 100 dollars
		Republic
30-34	(1976)	1, 5, 10, 50, 100 birr
36-40	(1987)	1, 5, 10, 50, 100 birr
41-45	(1991)	1, 5, 10, 50, 100 birr
46-50	1997	1, 5, 10, 50, 100 birr
51-52	2003-19	50, 100 birr
53-	2020	10, 50, 100, 200 birr