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25 Shillings Queen Victoria
| Issuer | Somalia |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Value | 25 Shillings (25 Shilin) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Somalia has issued coins under its nominal authority since the 1990s largely as a licensing arrangement with foreign mints, producing pieces with no connection to actual Somali circulation — the country had no functioning central bank and was effectively stateless at the time of this issue. This piece belongs to a broad series of commemorative coins sold directly into the international collector market, using the Somali issuing name as a legal vehicle.
The Victoria portrait used across such series typically derives from one of the official jubilee effigies, most commonly the Jubilee or Veiled head types of the 1880s–90s.