1000 Shillings Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami

Somalia's post-civil war coinage was largely produced by foreign mints under licensing arrangements with whatever faction or transitional authority could plausibly claim issuing rights — a murky situation that makes provenance on these pieces genuinely complicated. This 2005 commemorative was issued in the wake of the December 2004 Indian Ocean disaster, which killed an estimated 227,000 people across fourteen countries.

At 1.1 grams, this is a fractional silver piece — part of a broader wave of small-format commemoratives flooding the market in the mid-2000s from nominal issuers with little actual monetary infrastructure.