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10 Shillings Taurus, Full leaves
| Issuer | Bank of Somaliland |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Value | 10 Shillings (10 SLS) |
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| Obverse description | Bimetallic coin with a brass centre set within a copper-nickel ring. The brass centre features the coat of arms of Somaliland: a shield bearing a balance scale above an eagle and a clasped handshake, flanked by two olive branches, with an Arabic inscription above. The twelve zodiac symbols are arranged in segmented panels around the inner ring. The legend BAANKA SOMALILAND arcs along the upper periphery and 10 SHILLINGS along the lower periphery, all in raised Latin lettering. |
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| Reverse lettering | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ TAURUS ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2012 |
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Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 but remains unrecognized by any UN member state, making its currency a legal oddity — valid domestically, worthless internationally, and invisible to most monetary databases. The Taurus series was issued partly to assert the practical functions of a functioning state: tax collection, wage payment, and market commerce all required a coin supply that Somali shillings, increasingly worthless and counterfeit-ridden, could no longer reliably provide.
The "Full leaves" designation distinguishes this die variety from issues where leaf detail in the design is partially incomplete — a known production inconsistency across the Taurus bimetallic series.