Catalog
100 Shillings
| Issuer | Bankiga Dhexe ee Soomaaliya (Central Bank of Somalia) |
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| Year | 1978 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1962-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a female figure raising a rifle and farm tools before the Dagathur (October 21st) Monument in Mogadishu, with a mother and child at lower left and the Somali Coat of Arms at upper left. The denomination appears in both Somali and English at upper left and right corners within decorative guilloche borders. The issuer inscription 'BANKIGA DHEXE EE SOOMAALIYA' runs across the top, with date 'MUQDISHO 1978' and a facsimile signature below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | البنك المركزي الصومالي CENTRAL BANK OF SOMALIA SOMOALI SHILLINGS 100 SHILIN SOOMAALI ثامن صوماليا |
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Somalia's 1978 banknote series came just two years after the country's disastrous 1977–78 Ogaden War with Ethiopia — a conflict that drained the treasury, triggered mass refugee influxes numbering in the hundreds of thousands, and left the Siad Barre government economically dependent on foreign aid. Printing continued with Thomas De La Rue in London throughout this period, an arrangement that predated the war and outlasted it.
The P#24 watermark is the sole mechanical security feature — no security thread, no fluorescent fibres. Straightforward specification for the period, though later Somali issues would see even this reduced.