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1000 Shillings Elephant, Gold
| Issuer | Central Bank of Somalia |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Value | 1000 Shillings (1000 Shilin) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a finely detailed naturalistic scene featuring a large adult African elephant with prominent tusks and upraised trunk striding to the right alongside a young calf, both rendered amid savanna grasses and acacia-like shrubs, with a stylized rising sun in the upper field. The design is framed by a raised circular border. The series title AFRICAN WILDLIFE arcs along the upper legend, while ELEPHANT appears along the lower left and the bullion specification 1 oz Au 999 along the lower right, each separated by raised dots. |
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Somalia's gold bullion elephant series, launched in the mid-2000s, was produced not by the Central Bank in any operational sense but by foreign private mints working under licensing arrangements — the Bavarian State Mint in Munich handled production for several years. The Central Bank of Somalia at the time had virtually no functioning infrastructure, making these coins a commercial bullion product issued under a sovereign name rather than a product of a working monetary authority.
The arrangement was legally straightforward but commercially unusual. Dealers and collectors should note that authentication of these pieces warrants the same diligence applied to any privately-minted bullion issue marketed under a nominal sovereign issuer.