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250 Shillings Winston Churchill
| Issuer | Somalia |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Value | 250 Shillings (250 Shilin) |
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| Obverse description | The Somali national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a heraldic shield bearing a five-pointed star, supported by two leopards rampant, with crossed palm fronds and an olive branch below tied with a ribbon. The legend REPUBLIC OF SOMALIA arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 250 SHILLINGS is inscribed along the lower field. The design is framed by a beaded border. |
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| Reverse lettering | WINSTON CHURCHILL MILLENNIUM ICONS 2000 |
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Somalia's late-1990s and early-2000s commemorative program was a purely commercial operation — the country had no functioning central government following the collapse of the Siad Barre regime in 1991, and these coins were produced under license arrangements with foreign minting agencies targeting collector markets abroad. They circulated nowhere and were legal tender in name only.
Churchill himself had a documented but complicated relationship with British Africa, having served as Colonial Under-Secretary from 1905 to 1908 and traveled through the Somaliland Protectorate.