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1 Shilling Wild Nature
| Issuer | Central Bank of Somalia |
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| Year | 2002 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a full-color applied enamel design on a vivid red field, depicting a striding oryx in profile facing left, rendered in naturalistic detail with long straight horns, against a suggestion of savannah vegetation. The cursive legend Wild Nature appears to the upper left in gold script, the numeral 1 is positioned to the upper right, and the denomination SHILLING is inscribed vertically along the lower right periphery. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Somalia had no functioning central government in 2002 — the transitional administration claiming authority over monetary policy controlled almost none of the country's territory. These brass shillings were almost certainly struck under contract by a private mint and imported, a practice that had sustained nominal Somali coinage production throughout the civil war years of the 1990s. Whether they ever circulated in any meaningful volume is doubtful; the Somali shilling had effectively been rendered worthless by massive counterfeiting of the currency during the early 1990s, with unauthorized printing estimated to have multiplied the money supply several times over.