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1000 Shillings
| Issuer | Bank of Tanzania |
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| Year | 2003-2006 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1966-date) |
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| Obverse description | A front-facing portrait bust of Julius K. Nyerere occupies the right portion of the note, set against an intaglio vignette of a rock formation in the background. The national arms appear at centre, framed by fine guilloche underprint work. Denomination numerals and Swahili inscriptions are arranged in the surrounding margins. |
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| Obverse lettering | BENKI KUU YA TANZANIA FEDHA HALALI KWA MALIPO YA SHILINGI ELFU MOJA UHURU NA UMOJA SHILINGI ELFU MOJA JULIUS K. NYERERE 1000 (Translation: Central Bank of Tanzania Legal tender for one thousand shillings Freedom and unity One thousand shillings) |
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Giesecke & Devrient's Leipzig plant has supplied Tanzanian banknotes across several series, and this note falls within a relatively stable period for the Tanzanian shilling — inflation, while chronic through much of the 1990s, had eased enough by 2003 that a 1,000-shilling denomination still carried meaningful purchasing power. The issue ran three years before the series was updated, which kept individual print runs short by regional standards.
Security provision on this series is modest: watermark and security thread only, with no color-shifting ink or microprinting. Survivorship in high grades is complicated by Tanzania's tropical humidity, which accelerates paper fatigue even in relatively brief circulation.