Catalog
10 Scellini / 10 Somali Shillings
| Issuer | Banca Nazionale Somala |
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| Year | 1968 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Green with light tan underprint. A finely engraved vignette of the Juba River scene occupies the center right, with dense tree foliage and riverbank rendered in intaglio. Arabesque guilloche border frames the composition, with denomination numerals at lower corners. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Banca Nazionale Somala was established in 1960, the year Somalia gained independence through the merger of the former Italian Trust Territory and British Somaliland. Officina Carte Valori — the Italian state security printing works in Rome — supplied the early note series, a direct consequence of Italy's continued administrative and economic involvement in the south long after formal decolonization.
P#10 is the last dated issue before the 1969 coup that brought Siad Barre to power, after which the central bank was restructured and the note series replaced.