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10 Scellini / 10 Somali Shillings
| Issuer | Banca Nazionale Somala |
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| Year | 1962 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCA NAZIONALE SOMALA 10 SCELLINI IL PRESIDENTE IL PRESIDENTE DEL COLLEGIO DEI REVISORI MOGADISCIO 1962 SCELLINI SOMALI |
| Reverse description | Printed in green and terracotta, the reverse carries a large central vignette of a tranquil river landscape with lush trees and vegetation rendered in fine intaglio line work. A circular guilloche cartouche occupies the left field, corresponding to the watermark zone. The upper border bears the bank name in Arabic script, and the denomination '10 SOMALI SHILLINGS' appears at the upper left, with Arabic numerals at the lower right, all framed by an ornate geometric border. |
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The Banca Nazionale Somala was established in 1960 following the merger of the former Italian Trust Territory of Somalia and British Somaliland into the independent Somali Republic. This 1962 series — printed by the Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, the Italian state printing works in Rome — reflects the transitional dependency on Italian institutional infrastructure that characterized the republic's earliest years of self-governance.
The bilingual denomination pairing of Scellini and Shillings acknowledges the awkward administrative dual-inheritance from two distinct colonial systems, each with its own currency tradition. The bank itself was replaced by the Somali National Bank in 1968.