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400 Shillings Yitzhak Rabin
| Issuer | Bank of Somaliland |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents, within the brass centre, a finely detailed portrait bust of Yitzhak Rabin facing slightly to the left, rendered in moderate relief against a polished field, with his life dates 1922-1995 incused beneath the portrait. The copper-nickel square outer ring bears the commemorative date range 1995-2005 in raised lettering along the upper border. The legend TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF ASSASSINATION OF YITZHAK RABIN is inscribed across the left and lower and right borders of the square ring in Latin lettering, reading vertically on the sides and horizontally at the base, framing the central portrait in a solemn commemorative composition. |
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Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 but remains unrecognized by any United Nations member state, which makes its coinage a legal curiosity — struck not for circulation but almost entirely for the international collector market. The Bank of Somaliland issued a series of commemorative bimetallics in the early 2000s honoring foreign statespeople, Rabin among them.
Rabin was assassinated in November 1995 by Yigal Amir at a peace rally in Tel Aviv, a decade before this piece was struck.