Catalog
100 Shillings With Arabic numerals and text
| Issuer | Banki Kuu ya Kenya / Central Bank of Kenya |
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| Year | 1966-1968 |
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| Value | 100 Shillings |
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| Reverse description | A vignette of three agricultural workers harvesting on a pineapple plantation occupies the central field, with two pineapples rendered in the lower left foreground and a mountain range receding into the background. The composition reflects the agrarian economic themes characteristic of early Kenyan banknote design. |
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| Protection description | Lion's head |
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Kenya's earliest banknotes, including this series, were issued almost immediately after the East African Currency Board was wound down — a deliberate assertion of monetary independence from the shared East African currency that had served Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania since the colonial period. The Central Bank itself had only been established in 1966, making this among the very first notes it ever issued.
Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden works handled much of Anglophone Africa's early post-independence printing. The Arabic numeral variant exists because Kenya's coastal population included a significant Arabic-literate community, and the bilingual format was a practical accommodation rather than a decorative choice.