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2500 Shillings Elizabeth II 90th Anniversary - Queen of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
| Issuer | Baanka Somaliland |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse lettering | 90th BIRTHDAY OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II VIVAT REGINA 1926 EIIR 2016 2500 SHILLINGS BAANKA SOMALILAND |
| Reverse description | The bimetallic reverse features two Doctorfish Tang (Acanthurus chirurgus) rendered in finely engraved relief against a dark oxidised inner field, their characteristic ovoid bodies and striated flanks depicted in naturalistic detail. The fish are shown swimming in opposite orientations, filling the central disc. The gold-toned outer ring carries the legend QUEEN OF ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES along the upper arc and the date range 1979 - PRESENT along the lower arc in raised Latin lettering. |
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Somaliland's unrecognized status means its coinage carries no legal tender validity outside its own borders — and arguably within them, given ongoing international non-recognition since its 1991 declaration of independence from Somalia. The Baanka Somaliland has nonetheless issued a steady stream of commemorative bimetallics, many with no plausible connection to Somaliland itself, effectively producing collector tokens dressed as coins.
A Somaliland-issued piece commemorating the British monarch as Queen of St. Vincent and the Grenadines is exactly the kind of anomaly that defines this genre: three jurisdictions, none of them meaningfully related.