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2500 Shillings Elizabeth II 90th Anniversary - Queen of Sierra Leone
| Issuer | Baanka Somaliland |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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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 SIERRA LEONE 1961 - 1971 |
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Somaliland's coins occupy a peculiar position in numismatics: the territory has issued its own currency since 1994 despite lacking UN recognition, meaning these pieces are legal tender in Shillings accepted locally but effectively invisible to international monetary systems. The 2016 Elizabeth II 90th birthday issues were produced for the collector market rather than circulation, part of a wave of commemoratives issued by unrecognized or partially recognized states leveraging foreign monarchs and celebrities for export sales.
Sierra Leone, not Somaliland, is the Commonwealth nation with a constitutional relationship to the Crown — making the pairing of issuer and subject here a purely commercial decision with no political or historical basis.