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20 Shilingi
| Issuer | Benki Kuu ya Tanzania (Bank of Tanzania) |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Size | 140 × 70 mm |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | a giraffe head, visible when the note is held to light |
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Tanzania's 1986 note series, of which this is part, was issued under considerable fiscal strain — the country had recently completed a painful IMF structural adjustment program that gutted public spending and forced a sharp devaluation of the shilling. The "With islands" designation in the catalog distinguishes this from earlier issues that omitted the offshore territories of Zanzibar and Pemba from the map printed on the note, a politically sensitive distinction given Zanzibar's semi-autonomous status and its history of union tensions with the mainland after 1964.
De La Rue's watermark on this series is the sole security measure — modest even by mid-1980s standards.