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1500 Shillings David Livingstone

Issuer Bank of Tanzania
Year 2013
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Currency Shilling (1966-date)
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Obverse script Latin
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David Livingstone died in Chief Chitambo's village in present-day Zambia in 1873, and his heart was buried there under a mpundu tree before his body was carried to the coast for shipment to Westminster Abbey — a journey of roughly 1,500 miles on foot. Tanzania's interest in commemorating him is geographic rather than sentimental: much of his later exploration, including his search for the Nile's source, was conducted across what is now Tanzanian territory.