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25 000 Shilingi Serengeti Wildlife
| Issuer | Bank of Tanzania |
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| Year | 1998 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | TANZANIA UHURU NA UMOJA 1998 (Translation: Freedom and Unity) |
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| Reverse lettering | SERENGETI WILDLIFE SHILINGI ELFU ISHIRINI NA TANO 25000 |
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Tanzania's 1998 kilo silver program targeted the high-end collector market at a moment when large-format kilo coins were proliferating among African issuers, many produced under contract by European mints for export rather than domestic circulation. This piece never functioned as money in any practical sense — the face value was nominal even by 1998 Tanzanian shilling standards, when the currency had already suffered decades of post-independence inflation and structural adjustment pressures that gutted its purchasing power.
KM#A58 designation places it as a variant addition to the standard catalog sequence, suggesting it was documented after initial publication of the Tanzania listings.