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10 Shillings Tiger, Full leaves
| Issuer | Bank of Somaliland |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Thickness | 1.8 mm |
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| Reverse description | The central field features a detailed relief of a tiger in full stride, facing left, with naturalistic striped markings rendered across the body. To the right of the animal, the Chinese character 虎 (tiger) appears above the Latin legend TIGER. The arc inscription CHINESE TWELVE ZODIAC runs along the upper periphery, and the date 2012 is inscribed in the lower field, flanked by two small dots. The design is enclosed within a beaded inner border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 following the collapse of the Siad Barre government, but has never received formal recognition from any United Nations member state. It nonetheless functions as a self-governing territory with its own currency — the Somaliland shilling — issued independently of the Somali shilling and not internationally convertible. The "Tiger" 10 shilling series draws from the Bank of Somaliland's practice of issuing coins with wildlife themes, partly as a strategy to attract foreign collector interest given the territory's limited domestic coin market.
The "Full leaves" distinction refers to a die variety differentiating this piece from otherwise near-identical strikes in the same series.