Somalia had no functioning central government in 2000 — the state had collapsed in 1991 and would not see a recognized transitional authority until 2004. These millennium issues were produced entirely for the collector market by a private minting arrangement, a common mechanism for nominal African issuers during this period who licensed their sovereignty to foreign mint contractors without any domestic monetary infrastructure to speak of.
Somalia had no functioning central government in 2000 — the state had collapsed in 1991 and would not see a recognized transitional authority until 2004. These millennium issues were produced entirely for the collector market by a private minting arrangement, a common mechanism for nominal African issuers during this period who licensed their sovereignty to foreign mint contractors without any domestic monetary infrastructure to speak of.