Currency history
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
Its place in the family
All ancestors and descendants ↗Ethiopian birr
This currencyChildren 1
Trace its ancestry backward
Ethiopian birr
East African shilling
1 later contribution joined this currency. See those connections →
Kenya and Uganda florin
Indian rupee
2 later contributions joined this currency. See those connections →
Calcutta sicca rupee
1 later contribution joined this currency. See those connections →
Mughal rupee–dam accounting
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
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
- National Bank of Ethiopia · Bank Notes C585 ↗
- 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