Somalia's numismatic output since the early 2000s has been almost entirely the work of foreign licensing arrangements — European distributors contract designs, source blanks, and handle distribution, with the Somali government providing little beyond nominal issuing authority in exchange for a fee. This coin exists for that reason alone. The unicorn series, like most Somali collector issues of this period, was produced for the European and Asian novelty market and almost certainly never entered circulation in Somalia.
Somalia's numismatic output since the early 2000s has been almost entirely the work of foreign licensing arrangements — European distributors contract designs, source blanks, and handle distribution, with the Somali government providing little beyond nominal issuing authority in exchange for a fee. This coin exists for that reason alone. The unicorn series, like most Somali collector issues of this period, was produced for the European and Asian novelty market and almost certainly never entered circulation in Somalia.