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20 Shilingi
| Issuer | Benki Kuu ya Tanzania (Bank of Tanzania) |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Value | 20 Shilingi (20 TZS) |
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| Obverse description | Forward-facing portrait vignette of President Julius Nyerere at right, with the national arms at upper centre and a torch at left. The note carries multicolour guilloche underprint across the face. Bilingual inscriptions in Swahili identify the issuing authority, denomination, and national motto. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The "Without islands" designation refers to a significant geographic omission on the map of Tanzania printed on this note — the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba are absent, an error corrected in later printings of the same series. For a nation whose political union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar in 1964 was constitutionally foundational, the omission was not trivial.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement in Tanzanian currency production stretched back to independence-era issues, making this kind of plate error particularly noteworthy — quality control at De La Rue was generally rigorous.