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250 Shillings Napoleon

Issuer Somalia
Year 2001
Type Non-circulating coin
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Obverse script Latin
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Edge Reeded
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Additional information

Somalia's late-1990s and early-2000s commemorative program was effectively run not by the Somali state — which had no functioning central government after 1991 — but by private licensing firms operating under delegated authority, a legally murky arrangement that produced hundreds of thematic issues with no connection to Somali monetary life. This coin is a product of that system. The Napoleon subject was a reliable seller in the global commemorative market of this period, which explains its appearance here rather than any particular Somali-Napoleonic historical link.

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