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20 Shillings Magnetic
| Issuer | Central Bank of Kenya |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Value | 20 Shillings |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF KENYA 20 HARAMBEE • TWENTY SHILLINGS 2010 • (Translation: All pull together.) |
| Reverse description | The brass-plated steel centre displays a left-facing draped bust portrait of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, first President of Kenya, rendered in bold relief with fine detail to the facial features and short beard. The truncation of the bust is visible at the lower centre of the inner disc. The surrounding nickel-plated steel ring bears the two-part legend '• THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF KENYA •' along the upper arc and '• MZEE JOMO KENYATTA •' continuing along the lower arc, all in raised Latin lettering. |
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Kenya's bimetallic shilling coinage was restructured in the early 2000s partly to combat counterfeiting of the earlier brass issues. The magnetic variant — KM#36.2 — was introduced as a production economy, substituting steel cores for the costlier alloy blanks used in earlier strikes. Vending machine operators and transit systems across Nairobi pushed for better machine-readable properties, and the magnetic composition answered that need directly.