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100 Shillings Elephant, Silver, ANA Privy Mark
| Issuer | Somalia |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Weight | 31.10 g |
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| Reverse description | A large adult African elephant is depicted in three-quarter frontal view, advancing toward the viewer with a juvenile elephant visible behind it to the left, set against a savanna landscape with characteristic flat-topped acacia trees in the middle ground and a bird in flight near the upper field. An oval ANA privy mark featuring a stylized tower or building motif with the inscription 'ANA 2015' is inset to the upper left of the central design. The legend '• AFRICAN WILDLIFE •' arcs along the upper border, with '• ELEPHANT •' along the lower left and '1 oz Ag 999' along the lower right, all within a beaded border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Somalia's bullion elephant series, launched in 2002, occupies an unusual position in the modern silver market — issued under Somali authority but produced and distributed entirely through foreign private mints, with no meaningful connection to the Somali government's actual monetary operations. The ANA privy mark on this 2015 piece denotes the American Numismatic Association's annual convention, a standard promotional device used across several bullion series to generate collector premiums on otherwise standard one-ounce issues.
Convention privy issues typically see mintages well below the parent date, though Somalia series production figures are notoriously unverified.