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100 Shillings Silver Commemorative Issue
| Issuer | Baanka Somaliland |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Size | 135 × 62 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | BAANKA SOMALILAND BOQOL SL SHILIN ONE HUNDRED SOMALILAND SHILLINGS ١٠٠ شن Sanad Gurada 5ee Gobanimadda 18 May 1996 (Translation: Bank of Somaliland One Hundred Somaliland Shillings. 5th Anniversary of Independence 18 May 1996) |
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| Reverse lettering | BAANKA SOMALILAND BOQOL SL SHILIN ONE HUNDRED SOMALILAND SHILLINGS ١٠٠ شن (Translation: Bank of Somaliland One Hundred Somaliland Shillings.) |
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Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991, but no UN member state has formally recognized it — a political limbo that makes every note it has issued technically the currency of an unrecognized republic. The 1996 series, of which this is part, was a deliberate assertion of administrative normalcy: a functioning central bank issuing dated, denominated paper in a territory still rebuilding from the destruction of the civil war.
The "Silver Commemorative" designation in the series name is something of a misnomer — this is a circulating paper note, not a numismatic silver strike. Whether the label refers to a founding anniversary is not firmly established in the literature.