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5 Shillings
| Issuer | Central Bank of Somalia |
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| Year | 1978 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1962-date) |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a banana plantation harvesting scene with workers among tall banana trees laden with fruit, rendered in fine intaglio line work. A large blank watermark panel occupies the left portion of the note. Arabic and Latin inscriptions frame the design at top and in the four corners. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
Somalia's 1978 series was printed by Thomas De La Rue during a period of significant political pressure: the Ogaden War with Ethiopia had ended badly that same year, with Cuban and Soviet intervention forcing a Somali withdrawal and leaving the government of Siad Barre economically exposed. The shilling had been introduced only a decade earlier, in 1967, when Somalia was still navigating non-alignment between Cold War sponsors.
De La Rue's watermark security on this denomination is minimal by the firm's own standards — understandable given the low face value and the cost calculus of producing small-denomination notes for a struggling economy.