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10 Shillings Sheep, Full leaves
| Issuer | Bank of Somaliland |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Composition | Bimetallic: brass centre in copper-nickel ring |
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| Obverse lettering | BAANKA SOMALILAND SHILIN 10 SHILLINGS (Translation: Bank of Somaliland) |
| Reverse description | The brass centre features a naturalistic standing figure of a sheep facing left, rendered in fine relief against a plain field. To the lower right of the animal appears the Chinese character '羊' (goat/sheep) accompanied by the English legend 'SHEEP'. The copper-nickel outer ring carries the legend 'CHINESE TWELVE ZODIAC' along the upper arc, with the date '2012' flanked by raised dots at the lower arc. A beaded border runs along the inner and outer rim edges. |
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Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 but remains unrecognized by any United Nations member state, meaning its currency exists in a legal grey zone — accepted domestically but ignored by international monetary institutions. The Bank of Somaliland issues coinage largely as a practical domestic necessity rather than through any internationally sanctioned framework.
The "Full leaves" designation distinguishes this from a variant with incomplete or weak leaf rendering, a die difference significant enough to catalog separately under KM#91.