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1 Shilling Black Bat Flower
| Issuer | Somaliland |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1994-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Somaliland has issued its own coinage since 1994 despite remaining unrecognized by any UN member state — a geopolitical peculiarity that makes its issues technically unofficial by international standards, yet physically real and distributed. The "Black Bat Flower" series targets the thematic collector market, a revenue strategy that small or unrecognized territories have leaned on heavily since the 1990s.
Tacca chantrieri, the plant commemorated here, is native to tropical Southeast Asia — a curious subject for a Horn of Africa issuer with no botanical or geographic connection to it.