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10 000 Shilingi
| Issuer | Benki Kuu ya Tanzania (Bank of Tanzania) |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed portrait vignette of a giraffe head at right, with a seated lion in the lower left foreground against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The national arms appear at upper centre, flanked by the large denomination numerals '10000' in each upper corner. Two manuscript facsimile signatures of the Waziri wa Fedha (Minister of Finance) and Gavana (Governor) are positioned below the arms at centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | BENKI KUU YA TANZANIA SHILINGI ELFU KUMI 10000 (Translation: Central Bank of Tanzania Ten thousand shillings) |
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Tanzania's 10,000 Shilingi was the highest denomination in circulation when this series launched in the mid-1990s, a period when the country was still unwinding the economic damage of the ujamaa socialist experiment and navigating IMF structural adjustment conditions that had reshaped monetary policy through the late 1980s and into the '90s. The note was a direct product of liberalization — Tanzania had dismantled its single-party state only in 1992, and multiparty elections in 1995 preceded this issue by two years.
Giesecke & Devrient had been printing Tanzanian currency for decades by this point, giving the series a consistency in paper quality and security thread placement that distinguishes it from some earlier issues produced under more constrained procurement conditions.