Catalog
100 Shillings
| Issuer | Bank of Tanzania |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Value | 100 Shilingi (100 TZS) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a Maasai herdsman standing with a spear, cattle grazing on the open savanna behind him. A decorative floral and berry wreath frames the blank value panel at right, with geometric guilloche borders running along the upper and lower margins. Denomination numerals appear at upper right and lower left. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Tanzania's first post-independence banknote series, of which this is a part, was issued in 1966 following the dissolution of the East African Currency Board — the shared monetary authority that had served Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika under British oversight. The new Bank of Tanzania needed its own currency quickly, and De La Rue was the natural choice: they had printed the EACB notes and held the existing relationships with the regional central banks.
The P#4 is the highest denomination in that inaugural series, which made it politically as well as economically significant for a government keen to signal fiscal independence to international observers.