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250 Shillings Rhinoceros
| Issuer | Somalia |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1962-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a finely detailed proof-quality depiction of two white rhinoceroses in a naturalistic savannah setting, rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. The animals are shown face to face in profile, grazing amid clumps of grass, with a group of acacia trees silhouetted on the horizon in the upper central field. The legend WILDLIFE OF AFRICA arcs along the upper periphery in bold Latin capitals, and the species designation RHINOCEROS is inscribed along the lower border, all contained within a beaded inner circle. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Somalia's coinage authority had no functioning central bank by 2000 — the state had collapsed in 1991 and would not reassemble meaningful monetary institutions for years. These wildlife issues were licensed to foreign minting agencies, with the Somali name lending nominal sovereignty to coins that were never intended to circulate and were produced entirely for the collector market.
KM# 123 is part of a broader African wildlife series that exploited the legal ambiguity of Somalia's collapsed governance to place product on the international numismatic market at competitive premiums.