100 Scellini / 100 Somali Shillings

Banca Nazionale Somala was established in 1960 as the successor to the earlier Cassa per la Circolazione Monetaria della Somalia, which had itself been a product of the Italian trusteeship administration. The 1968–1971 series marked the bank's mature phase before it was dissolved following the 1969 military coup that brought Siad Barre's Supreme Revolutionary Council to power — notes of this series were still in active circulation when the entire institutional framework behind them was dismantled overnight.

Thomas De La Rue's involvement with Somali currency printing was continuous across several issuing authorities in the region, and the P#12 is among the last notes to carry the Banca Nazionale Somala name before the successor Somali National Bank reissued under a different political identity.