10 Shilingi

Tanzania's shilling coinage of the late 1980s was produced under considerable economic strain — the country was in the midst of IMF structural adjustment negotiations that had dragged on since 1979, and domestic purchasing power had eroded sharply enough that a 10 shilling coin represented meaningful daily currency rather than small change. The Bank of Tanzania was managing a monetary system under pressure from both inflation and a parallel black-market exchange rate that routinely dwarfed the official one.

Production spanned only three years before higher-denomination coinage became increasingly impractical to mint in base metal at honest weights.