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| Issuer | Baanka Somaliland |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1994-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | 90th BIRTHDAY OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II VIVAT REGINA 1926 EIIR 2016 2500 SHILLINGS BAANKA SOMALILAND |
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| Reverse lettering | QUEEN OF CEYLON 1952 - 1972 |
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Somaliland, unrecognized by the United Nations and lacking formal diplomatic ties with virtually every nation on earth, has since the mid-1990s issued commemorative coinage as a soft-power tool and a foreign-currency revenue stream — none of it intended for domestic circulation. This piece, marking Elizabeth II's 90th birthday, invokes her role as Queen of Ceylon, a title she held only from her accession in 1952 until Ceylon became a republic in 1972.