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100 Shilingi
| Issuer | Benki Kuu ya Tanzania (Bank of Tanzania) |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Reverse description | A university graduation procession rendered in intaglio occupies the central and right portions of the note, graduates shown in full academic regalia against a multicolour guilloche underprint. A modern institutional building complex with landscaped grounds appears at left. Geometric guilloche vignettes frame the right margin, with the denomination value and issuer inscription set above the central composition. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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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.