25 Shillings Pope in Multi-colored cloak

Somalia's post-civil war administrations issued a flood of novelty and commemorative pieces in the early 2000s with no connection to actual Somali monetary policy — currency production had become a revenue exercise for the Transitional National Government, licensing foreign mints to strike collectibles bearing the Somali name. This piece is one of dozens from that period aimed squarely at the thematic collector market, not circulation.