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100 Shillings Silver Mother Elephant and Baby
| Issuer | Somalia |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#182 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a finely detailed naturalistic scene depicting a full-bodied adult African elephant standing in profile to the right, with its trunk lowered toward a young calf standing beside it in the foreground. Both animals are rendered with fine engraved detail showing skin texture and musculature, set against a backdrop of tall palm trees framing the composition. The circumscribed legend at the top reads 'AFRICAN WILDLIFE' and along the lower arc 'ELEPHANT · 1 OZ Ag 999', confirming the coin's bullion specification of one troy ounce of .999 fine silver. Decorative bullet points separate the legend elements, and a raised inner circle frames the central design. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Somalia's coinage authority has, since the 1990s, operated in a complex arrangement given the country's prolonged civil conflict and absence of a functioning central bank — the coins bearing its name are largely produced by foreign mints under licensing arrangements and sold directly into the collector market rather than circulated domestically. This piece is part of that broader wildlife bullion-collector series, positioned alongside similar African elephant issues from more established programs.
KM#182 is one of several elephant-themed Somalia silver issues catalogued across the 2000s, a period when the series was expanding rapidly to compete with the Somali elephant coins gaining traction in European collector markets.