Somaliland's shilling coinage occupies a strange bureaucratic space — the territory has issued its own currency since 1994 despite remaining unrecognized by any UN member state. These animal series pieces, produced for circulation rather than the collector market, are among the few physical artifacts of a functioning but diplomatically invisible monetary system.
Somaliland's shilling coinage occupies a strange bureaucratic space — the territory has issued its own currency since 1994 despite remaining unrecognized by any UN member state. These animal series pieces, produced for circulation rather than the collector market, are among the few physical artifacts of a functioning but diplomatically invisible monetary system.