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250 Shillings Sheep Dog
| Issuer | Somalia |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Diameter | 38.6 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2006 |
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Somalia's 1990s and early 2000s coinage presents a peculiar administrative puzzle: the country had no functioning central government after 1991, yet coins continued to be issued under its name by private minting agencies operating under licensing arrangements with regional authorities or simply exploiting the vacant sovereign identity. This piece almost certainly originates from that arrangement, produced for the collector market rather than any actual Somali circulation.
KM#153 belongs to a sprawling animal-themed series that used Somalia's nominal sovereignty as a vehicle for novelty collector issues — a practice common among failed or fragile states during this period.