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25 Shillings Nelson Mandela
| Issuer | Central Bank of Somalia |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#72 |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF SOMALIA 25 SHILLINGS |
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| Reverse lettering | NELSON MANDELA MILLENNIUM ICONS 2000 |
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Somalia's Central Bank issued this piece during a period when the country had no functioning central government — the Transitional National Government wasn't even established until August 2000, and exercised no real monetary authority. These coins were almost certainly produced by a private mint on contract and never meaningfully circulated within Somalia. They were sold directly into the collector market, a common arrangement for Somali issues of this period that has drawn sustained skepticism from numismatists regarding their status as legitimate state coinage.