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250 Shillings Queen of Sheba
| Issuer | Somalia |
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| Year | 2002 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The Somali national arms occupies the centre of the field, depicting a quartered shield bearing horizontal lines and a central five-pointed star, supported on either side by a standing leopard rampant. Above the shield is a mural crown, and below it cross a palm frond and an olive branch tied with a ribbon. The circular legend REPUBLIC OF SOMALIA arcs along the upper periphery, with the denomination 250 SHILLINGS inscribed along the lower arc. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse lettering | Queen of Sheba 2002 |
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Somalia's early 2000s commemorative program was largely driven by foreign minting interests rather than domestic monetary policy — the country had no functioning central government at the time, with the Transitional National Government recognized internationally but controlling little actual territory. These issues were produced primarily for the collector market and never entered circulation in any meaningful sense.
The Queen of Sheba's connection to the Horn of Africa is rooted in Ethiopian and Yemeni tradition, with the Kebra Nagast — the 14th-century Ethiopian national epic — placing her origins squarely in the region Somalia borders.