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250 Shillings Mzee Jomo Kenyatta
| Issuer | Central Bank of Kenya |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Weight | 19 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | MZEE JOMO KENYATTA |
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Kenya's 1966 gold issues were struck to commemorate the country's third anniversary of independence, with this 250 Shillings piece sitting at the top of a four-coin proof set commissioned by the newly established Central Bank. Jomo Kenyatta, who had spent the better part of a decade imprisoned by the British colonial administration — including nearly two years in the remote Lokitaung prison above Lake Turkana — was by 1966 firmly installed as the country's first President.
The Franklin Mint produced the series under contract, a common arrangement for newly independent African states lacking domestic minting infrastructure in the 1960s.