25 Shillings Wildlife of Somalia and East Africa

Somalia's Central Bank issued this wildlife series in 1998 during one of the most complete collapses of state authority in modern African history — the government had effectively ceased to function years earlier, and no functioning national mint existed. These were produced under contract by a foreign facility and circulated, to whatever extent they did, in a country operating largely through clan-based exchange economies and Somali shilling substitutes.

KM#47 is one of several denominations in the series. The 25-shilling face value was essentially notional by the time of striking.