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100 Shillings Black Rhinoceros
| Issuer | Bank of Tanzania |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Weight | 25 g |
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| Obverse lettering | TANZANIA UHURU NA UMOJA 100 SHILLINGS |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Tanzania's rhinoceros coinage sits in a crowded field of African wildlife issues produced for the collector market rather than circulation — the Bank of Tanzania has authorized numerous such pieces through European minting intermediaries, primarily targeting European and North American buyers. The black rhinoceros (*Diceros bicornis*) itself was listed as critically endangered by the IUCN, with the western black rhino subspecies declared extinct in 2011, lending these issues a conservation framing that drives their commercial appeal.
KM#89 is silver-plated copper-nickel, not solid silver — a distinction that meaningfully affects secondary market value relative to superficially similar issues in the series struck in .999 fine.