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100 Shilingi Save the Children Fund
| Issuer | Tanzania |
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| Year | 1990 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse lettering | · SAVE THE CHILDREN FUND · SHILINGI 100 MIA MOJA |
| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued as part of the global numismatic campaign tied to UNICEF and international child welfare initiatives that proliferated in the late 1980s, Tanzania's contribution arrived the same year the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child entered into force — November 1990. Whether the timing was deliberate coordination or coincidence is unclear from mint records, but Tanzania was among the earlier sub-Saharan issuers to participate in this genre of commemorative programming.
Struck in sterling at the British Royal Mint on contract, as was common for Tanzanian commemoratives of this period lacking domestic silver striking capacity.