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1 Shilling
| Issuer | Somalia |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Weight | 3.5 g |
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| Obverse description | Circular blue color applique applied to the coin field, featuring the Somali coat of arms at center, dated 10 October 1956. The denomination 1 SHILLING appears within the design, with the split date 20 and 15 flanking the central device in black numerals. The legend SOMALY REPUBLIC is inscribed around the design. The overall presentation is a flat printed color insert within the stainless steel planchet. |
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| Reverse description | Full-field multicolor applique depicting a large square-rigged sailing ship under full sail, presented in a painterly maritime style. The vessel, consistent with an historic VOC-era tall ship, is shown sailing on a blue sea with white-capped waves beneath a pale cloudy sky, occupying nearly the entire coin field. The ship is oriented slightly to the left with all sails billowing, rendered in detailed polychrome color print. No legend, inscription, or exergual text appears on this face. |
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Somalia has had no functioning central bank capable of managing a national currency for most of the period since 1991. The shillings circulating — and being issued — in the 2000s and 2010s were produced by private mints operating under contract with whichever internationally recognized transitional government existed at the time, with virtually no domestic distribution infrastructure to speak of.
The paper colorization on this stainless steel planchet is a collector-market technique, applied after striking, not a mint process.