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Home Currency Gallery Currency Management Currency ManagementIssue System | History of Nigerian Currency | Legal Tender |Currency Gallery | Security Features Currency GalleryNotes:Coins Withdrawn: Earlier | 1959 | 1965 | 1968 | 1973 | 1977 | 1979 | 1984 | 1991 | 2007
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The main feature on the front are the hand engraved portraits of four Nigerians, three men and a woman, superimposed on the Nigerian map. The main feature on the back is a hand engraved vignette that depicts farming in its two aspects of cultivating and harvesting. The right top corner value is on two cowries shells. Cowrie shells were once a medium of exchange in the country. |
| Facts : 1/1/1900 |
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| Paris Club of Creditors:The club represents only government guaranteed creditors. Members include the United States of America, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Canada, who guarantee the export activities of their nationals. When the recipient nation s government is unable to pay the equivalent of the imports domestic currency cover, it becomes government debt owed to creditor nations. The first Paris Club meeting was held in 1956. |
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