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100 Shillings Elephant

Issuer Somalia
Year 2024
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Value 100 Shillings (100 Shilin)
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Obverse script Latin
Obverse lettering SOMALI REPUBLIC 20 24 100 SHILLINGS
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Somalia's Elephant series has circulated in a peculiar legal gray zone for decades — the coins are struck under license by foreign mints, primarily the Bavarian State Mint in Munich, for a country whose central banking infrastructure has been effectively non-functional since the state collapsed in 1991. The Somali government nominally authorizes the series, but the coins have never meaningfully circulated within Somalia itself, existing almost entirely as bullion products for European and Asian collector markets.

The .9999 fineness places this issue a step above the more common .999 bullion standard — a specification the series adopted to compete directly with the Austrian Philharmonic and similar fine silver offerings.

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