Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 000 Shillings Isaac Newton
| Issuer | Somalia |
|---|---|
| Year | 1999 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Central device depicts the Somali national coat of arms, featuring a heraldic shield with horizontal stripes and a central five-pointed star, supported by two leopards rampant facing inward, resting on a base of two crossed palm fronds. The legend SOMALI REPUBLIC arcs along the upper periphery in Latin script, with the Arabic equivalent flanking the shield in the upper field. The denomination 10000 Sh. So. and Arabic script appear along the lower periphery. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin/Arabic |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Somalia's late-1990s commemorative program was largely a commercial licensing operation with no meaningful connection to Somali monetary history — the country had no functioning central bank and was mid-civil war when these pieces were contracted through foreign minting agents. Newton is here simply because his image sold.
The 10,000 shilling face value was notional; Somalia's actual circulating shillings were nearly worthless by 1999, issued by competing factions rather than any sovereign authority.