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1000 Shillings
| Issuer | Banki Kuu ya Kenya / Central Bank of Kenya |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1966-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1000 HARAMBE BANKI KUYU YA KENYA CENTRAL BANK OF KENYA LEGAL TENDER FOR ONE THOUSAND SHILLINGS SHILINGI ELFU MOJA FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS (Translation: All pull together Central Bank of Kenya One thousand shillings) |
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| Protection description | Lion head and electrotype 1000 watermark; embedded security thread |
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Kenya's 2019 note series was the first major redesign since 2010 and came with a constitutional mandate behind it — the 2010 Kenyan constitution explicitly prohibited the display of portraits of living or deceased individuals on currency, pushing the Central Bank toward a wildlife and landscape-heavy theme across all denominations. The directive was not without controversy; the change required an Act of Parliament to formally amend the Central Bank of Kenya Act before implementation could proceed.
Thomas De La Rue has printed Kenyan currency continuously since independence in 1963, an unusually long unbroken relationship for a sovereign issuer.