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10 Shillings Tiger

Issuer Somalia
Year 2000
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Composition Nickel clad steel
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Obverse description Central field displays the Somali coat of arms, featuring a shield bearing a five-pointed star, supported by two leopards rampant, with crossed spear and olive branch below. The circular legend reads 'REPUBLIC OF SOMALIA' along the upper periphery, flanked by dots. The denomination '10' appears prominently in the lower field, with the bilingual inscriptions 'SHILLINGS' and 'SCELLINI' arranged vertically on either side of the arms.
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Obverse lettering ·REPUBLIC OF SOMALIA· SHILLINGS 10 SCELLINI
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Part of Somalia's extended series of wildlife-themed coinage produced through the late 1990s and early 2000s, these pieces were almost certainly not intended for domestic circulation — Somalia had no functioning central government at the time, and coin distribution infrastructure had effectively collapsed following the fall of Siad Barre's regime in 1991. Production was contracted to foreign mints targeting the collector market, a common arrangement among nominal issuing authorities with no practical monetary system to maintain.

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