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10 Shillings Monkey, Full leaves
| Issuer | Bank of Somaliland |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | The brass centre depicts a naturalistically rendered monkey in profile, oriented to the right in a crouching walking posture. The Chinese character 猴 (monkey) appears in the upper portion of the centre field, with the English legend MONKEY inscribed below it. The copper-nickel outer ring bears the legend CHINESE TWELVE ZODIAC along the upper arc, and the date 2012 with flanking dots along the lower arc, separated from the centre by a beaded border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 but remains unrecognized by any UN member state, leaving the Bank of Somaliland to issue currency for a country that officially does not exist. These coins circulate domestically without the international legitimacy that most issuing authorities take for granted. The monkey series — part of a broader wildlife coinage program — was produced largely for collector export rather than heavy domestic use, which explains why circulated examples are harder to find than uncirculated ones despite the modest face value.