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25 Shillings Emperor Hirohito
| Issuer | Central Bank of Somalia |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | EMPEROR HIROHITO MILLENNIUM ICONS 2000 |
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Somalia's Central Bank issued this piece as part of a foreign-market collector series — coins with no domestic circulation intent, produced by private minting contractors and sold directly into the numismatic trade. Hirohito's appearance on a Somali coin reflects nothing more than commercial calculation: Japanese imperial imagery sold reliably to collectors in the late 1990s novelty market. By 2000, Somalia had no functioning central government, making the issuing authority's name largely nominal.