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250 Shillings Scottie small white
| Issuer | Somalia |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1962-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | SOMALI REPUBLIC · 250 SHILLINGS · |
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| Reverse lettering | YEAR OF THE DOG 狗 2006 狗 |
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Somalia's 250 Shillings series from the mid-2000s was produced almost entirely for the collector market, not domestic circulation — the country had no functioning central bank at the time and the Transitional Federal Government, established only in 2004, lacked the infrastructure to distribute coinage internally. KM#146 is part of a broader run of novelty issues licensed through private minting agencies, a practice that generated revenue precisely because the Somali state name carried legal tender status on paper while the coins never touched Somali soil.