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100 Shillings Silver Commemorative Issue
| Issuer | Baanka Somaliland |
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| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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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) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette portrays the Berbera dockside scene, with a large cargo vessel moored at the quay and herds of Somali sheep and goats being driven along the waterfront in the foreground. Elaborate guilloche rosettes occupy the left and right panels, with denomination values rendered in English and Somali script at each corner. The overall palette is rendered in grey-green and violet tones with a fine lathe-work underprint. |
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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.