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20.000 Shilin / 20.000 Shillings
| Issuer | Central Bank of Somalia |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Value | 20 000 Shillings |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the National Theatre in Mogadishu, rendered in fine intaglio against an intricate geometric guilloche underprint in pale gold and blue. The bank title appears in Arabic script at upper centre, with the denomination numerals at upper left and lower left; serial number in black at upper right and lower left. Two signature lines with titles appear at lower centre-left. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Somalia's Central Bank had been effectively non-functional since the collapse of Siad Barre's government in 1991. By 2010, the Transitional Federal Government — itself operating without stable territorial control — authorized new currency issues, but physical distribution remained severely limited. Notes nominally issued under the Central Bank's name circulated alongside a flood of "Somaliland shilling" issues and old pre-collapse stock, creating a fractured monetary environment where denomination credibility was almost entirely separate from institutional credibility.
The 20,000 shilling denomination reflects the severe cumulative inflation that had eroded earlier face values into irrelevance. A watermark-only security specification at this date suggests constrained procurement options.