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250 Shillings Wildlife of Somalia and East Africa
| Issuer | Somalia |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the Coat of Arms of the Republic of Somalia, depicting a light blue shield charged with a white five-pointed star, supported by two leopards rampant, with a crossed spear and palm frond below. The denomination '250 SHILLINGS' appears in the lower field, with the legend 'REPUBLIC OF SOMALIA' arcing along the upper periphery. |
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| Reverse lettering | WILDLIFE OF SOMALIA & EAST AFRICA · 1998 · |
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Somalia's central government had effectively collapsed by 1991, leaving the country fragmented among competing warlords and clan factions throughout the 1990s. These wildlife issues were produced not to serve any functioning domestic economy — 250 shillings was a meaningless denomination in a country with no stable monetary authority — but were contracted through foreign mints and sold directly into the international collector market, a revenue stream exploited by several collapsed or near-collapsed states during this period.
The trimetallic construction mirrors techniques pioneered by the Italian 500 lire bimetallic of 1982 and later refined for the euro series.