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25 Shilingi Conservation, Silver Proof Issue
| Issuer | Bank of Tanzania |
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| Year | 1974 |
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| Technique | Proof |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Tanzania's 1974 conservation series was part of a coordinated FAO and WWF-linked push that persuaded several developing nations to issue high-value proof coinage nominally directed at wildlife preservation funding. In practice, these were foreign-exchange earners aimed squarely at Western collectors, with the Bank of Tanzania authorizing the issue less than a decade after Julius Nyerere's Arusha Declaration had committed the country to socialist self-reliance — an ideological tension the government never publicly acknowledged.
The .925 specification and 28.28g weight place this squarely in the Crown-sized format that Franklin Mint and its contemporaries were aggressively marketing to issuing authorities throughout the early 1970s.