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5 Scellini / 5 Somali Shillings
| Issuer | Banca Nazionale Somala |
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| Year | 1962 |
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| Value | 5 Shillings (5 Shilin) (5 SOS) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCA NAZIONALE SOMALA 5 SCELLINI SOMALI MOGADISCIO 1962 IL PRESIDENTE IL PRESIDENTE DEL COLLEGIO DEI REVISORI DECRETO P.R. 5 MARZO 1962 N. 57 |
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| Reverse lettering | البنك الوطني الصومالي 5 SOMALI SHILLINGS ٥ شلنات صوماليه |
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Somalia's first independent central bank issued this note in 1962, two years after the merger of the former Italian Trust Territory and British Somaliland into the Somali Republic. The bilingual denomination — Scellini on the Italian-influenced side, Shillings on the English — reflects that uneasy administrative union, which never fully harmonized its legal and financial systems before the country's later political collapse.
Printed by the Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato in Rome, the note carries the opening Pick number for the entire Banca Nazionale Somala series. As a first-issue type from a newly constituted state, surviving circulated examples are considerably harder to locate than the catalog number suggests.