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1 Shilling Scarlet Ibis
| Issuer | Somaliland |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Diameter | 26 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | THE MOST UNUSUAL BIRDS Scarlet Ibis |
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Somaliland has issued its own currency since 1994 despite remaining unrecognized by any UN member state. The Somaliland shilling circulates domestically as a functional currency, though it holds no standing in international exchange — a situation that makes the issuing authority's continued production of coinage a pointed act of administrative self-assertion rather than economic necessity.
The Scarlet Ibis is native to Trinidad and parts of South America, not the Horn of Africa, which raises genuine questions about the curatorial logic behind this issue.