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250 Shillings Mzee Jomo Kenyatta

Issuer Central Bank of Kenya
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.

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