Catalog
5 Scellini / 5 Somali Shillings
| Issuer | Banca Nazionale Somala |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| Value | 5 Shillings (5 Shilin) (5 SOS) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCA NAZIONALE SOMALA 5 SCELLINI IL GOVERNATORE IL CASSIERE MOGADISCIO 1971 5 SOMALI SHILLINGS |
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| Protection description | Leopard head watermark |
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The Banca Nazionale Somala was dissolved just a year after this note's issue, replaced by the Bankiga Qaranka Soomaaliyeed following the nationalization of the banking sector under Siad Barre's Supreme Revolutionary Council. Notes from this short-lived institution exist in relatively limited numbers simply because its operational window was so narrow — the bank had only been established in 1960 at independence, giving it just over a decade before the state absorbed it entirely.
Thomas De La Rue produced the series, as they did for much of Somalia's early post-independence paper currency.