100 Shilingi

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.