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2500 Shillings Elizabeth II 90th Anniversary - Queen of Kenya
| Issuer | Baanka Somaliland |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Somaliland's commemorative output in the 2010s leaned heavily on international celebrity subjects that had no connection to the territory — a revenue strategy common among unrecognized states whose collector coins function as a foreign currency export rather than circulating money. The 2016 Elizabeth II 90th birthday issues appeared across several such issuers simultaneously, often sharing blanks and production contracts with the same European or Asian private mints.
Calling Elizabeth II "Queen of Kenya" is technically accurate only for the period 1952–1964, when Kenya was a Commonwealth realm before becoming a republic.