1000 Shilingi

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.