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1 Shilling Jabuticaba tree
| Issuer | Somaliland |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1994-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the full-colour pad-printed Coat of Arms of Somaliland, depicting a quartered shield with a minaret tower at lower left, a sailing dhow over waves at lower right, crossed spears and a traditional shield at upper right, and a stylised wheel device at upper left. The shield is surmounted by a red antelope head wearing a crown, rendered against a green textured field. The legend 'SOMALILAND 1 SHILLING 2020' curves along the outer border of the coin. |
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| Reverse lettering | THE MOST UNUSUAL TREES Jabuticaba Tree |
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Somaliland has issued its own coinage since 1994 despite remaining unrecognized by any UN member state. These shilling pieces are produced for the collector market rather than meaningful domestic circulation, and the pad-printing process — essentially a color transfer technique borrowed from industrial manufacturing — allows detailed polychrome imagery on steel blanks at low cost. The jabuticaba, a Brazilian tree that bears fruit directly on its trunk and branches, has no geographic or cultural connection to Somaliland whatsoever.