2000 Shillings Leo IX

Leo IX, born Bruno of Egisheim-Dagsburg, was one of the more consequential reform popes of the 11th century — he spent more of his pontificate traveling synods across Europe than sitting in Rome. His tenure ended badly: captured by the Normans at the Battle of Civitate in 1053, he died in captivity the following year. Somalia's connection to any of this is purely commercial. By the mid-2000s, the country's nominal government was licensing its sovereign coinage rights to foreign distributors producing collector pieces with no domestic circulation whatsoever.