Catalog
100 Shilingi
| Issuer | Benki Kuu ya Tanzania (Bank of Tanzania) |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse description | A front-facing portrait bust of President Julius Nyerere occupies the right portion of the note, rendered in fine intaglio line work against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The Tanzanian national arms appear at upper centre, while a vignette of a Grant's gazelle is positioned at lower left. Denomination numerals and bilingual inscriptions are set within the surrounding guilloche framework. |
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| Obverse lettering | BENKI KUU YA TANZANIA FEDHA HALALI KWA MALIPO YA SHILINGI MIA MOJA UHURU NA UMOJA SHILINGI MIA MOJA 100 (Translation: Central Bank of Tanzania Legal tender for one hundred shillings Freedom and unity One hundred shillings) |
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Tanzania's 1993 series came during a turbulent decade of IMF-pressured structural adjustment, when the government was dismantling the socialist economic architecture Julius Nyerere himself had built. Putting his portrait on the currency while simultaneously abandoning his policies was not lost on Tanzanian commentators at the time.
Thomas De La Rue had printed Tanzanian notes since independence, and the P#24 continues that unbroken relationship. The security thread on this issue is a simple embedded filament rather than the windowed threading De La Rue was already applying to other clients' notes by the early 1990s — a cost-driven specification choice that left the series somewhat behind contemporary anti-counterfeiting standards.