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1000 Shilingi
| Issuer | Benki Kuu ya Tanzania (Bank of Tanzania) |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Value | 1000 Shilingi |
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| Reverse lettering | BENKI KUU YA TANZANIA SHILINGI ELFU MOJA 1000 (Translation: Central Bank of Tanzania One thousand shillings) |
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| Protection description | Giraffe head watermark visible when held to light |
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| Comments |
Tanzania's 1997 currency reform reduced the physical size of its higher denominations considerably — this 1000 Shilingi was part of a new series introduced as the country's economy was stabilizing after years of socialist-era monetary pressure and IMF structural adjustment programs that had dominated the 1980s and early 1990s. Giesecke & Devrient had been the Bank of Tanzania's primary printer for several series by this point, a relationship that extended well back into the post-independence decades.
The watermark remains the principal security feature — modest by the standards of contemporaneous regional issues, several of which by then incorporated security threads and color-shifting ink.