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20 Shillings Save the Ocean
| Issuer | Central Bank of Somalia |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Composition | Gold (.9999) |
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| Reverse description | A highly detailed rendering of a sea urchin, with radiating spines extending across the central field, is depicted resting on a seabed surface, evoking a marine conservation theme. A silhouette map of the African continent appears in the upper right field, accompanied by a stylized mint logo to the right. The series title SAVE THE OCEAN arcs along the upper legend, with the date 2020 inscribed below it in the upper field. The fineness and weight specification 1/2 G .9999 FINEST GOLD is inscribed along the lower field. |
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| Reverse lettering | SAVE THE OCEAN 2020 1/2 G .9999 FINEST GOLD |
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Somalia's Central Bank has issued a long-running series of small-format gold miniatures under various environmental themes, largely aimed at the collector bullion market rather than domestic circulation. These pieces are struck by foreign minting contractors — the Somali issuing authority functions here essentially as a licensing body, with the coins finding their audience almost entirely in European and Asian collector markets.
The KM# 204 assignment places this squarely within that broader modern Somali collector coinage program, which expanded aggressively through the 2010s.