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1500 Shillings Rhino
| Issuer | Bank of Tanzania |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | 1500 ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED SHILLINGS The issuer of this legal tender commemorative coin note is authorized by the Bank of Tanzania (BOT). It is weight as set in the specifications. Au. 999 1g 1500pcs 150x70mm 2018 TANZANIA 1500 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Tanzania's wildlife bullion series occupies an awkward niche — too small in gold weight to attract serious bullion buyers, yet issued by a sovereign authority with enough credibility to circulate among collector-investors. The 1g format places it alongside similar fractional issues from the Perth Mint's various licensed programs, and this piece was indeed struck under such an arrangement rather than at any Tanzanian facility.
KM#119 is one of several rhino-themed issues produced during a period when black and white rhino populations in Tanzania's reserves, particularly Ngorongoro, were under active poaching pressure — a detail that gives the series an unintentional irony that some collectors note.