10 Shillings

Kenya's shilling-denominated notes of this period were printed by Bradbury Wilkinson at their New Malden works during a stretch of relative monetary stability — the mid-1970s saw the Central Bank managing reasonable reserves off the back of a coffee and tea export boom, before the second oil shock and the collapse of the East African Community in 1977 disrupted the regional economy sharply.

Three signature combinations appear across the P#12 series, all pairing Governor Duncan Ndegwa with different deputy signatories. Ndegwa held the governorship from 1967 to 1982, an unusually long tenure that spans the entire run of this type.