Catalog
100 Shilingi
| Issuer | Benki Kuu ya Tanzania (Bank of Tanzania) |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Front-facing portrait bust of President Julius Nyerere at right, the national arms at upper centre, and a torch vignette at left. The note carries the Bank of Tanzania title across the top, with the legal tender declaration and denomination in Swahili inscribed within the design. The overall layout is framed with guilloche underprint work typical of De La Rue production of this era. |
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| Protection description | Giraffe head |
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The "Without islands" designation distinguishes this note from earlier 100 Shilingi issues that depicted the Tanzanian archipelago — Zanzibar and Pemba — on the map vignette. Their removal was politically loaded: Zanzibar's relationship with the mainland remained constitutionally sensitive throughout the 1980s, and the union's internal tensions made even cartographic choices contentious. Whether the omission was deliberate policy or a revised design brief is not definitively documented, but the two varieties are sufficiently distinct that collectors treat them as separate issues.
Thomas De La Rue produced the series using a single security watermark with no metal strip, which was already a fairly minimal specification by mid-1980s standards for a 100-unit denomination.