25 Shillings Queen Mother

Somalia's late-1990s commemorative program was largely a commercial venture driven by foreign coin marketing firms rather than any domestic monetary need — the country had no functioning central government at the time, with Mogadishu having been without stable administration since Barre's fall in 1991. These pieces were licensed and distributed almost entirely to Western collector markets.

The Queen Mother series appeared across multiple issuing authorities simultaneously in 1999, timed to her 99th birthday.