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1500 Shillings 10th Anniversary of Republic
| Issuer | Central Bank of Somalia |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Composition | Gold (.917) |
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| Obverse lettering | JAMHUURIYADDA DIMOQRAADIGA SOOMAALIYA 1969-1979 SANNAD GUURADII 10AAD EE KACAANKA |
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| Reverse lettering | 1500 SHILLINGS ١٥٠٠ شلن |
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Somalia declared itself a republic in 1960 upon independence from the UN Trust Territory administered by Italy, but the government commemorating that anniversary in 1979 was nothing like the one that had declared it. Siad Barre had seized power in a military coup in 1969, dissolved the National Assembly, and suspended the constitution — yet issued this coin under the Central Bank as if the republican lineage were unbroken. The tenth anniversary being marked is, strictly speaking, the anniversary of the coup's first decade, not the republic's nineteenth.