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5 Shillings
| Issuer | Bank of Tanzania |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1966-date) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed portrait of President Julius Nyerere in three-quarter facing bust at right, set against a green and brown guilloche underprint with floral vignette at left; the Tanzanian coat of arms at centre, flanked by two facsimile signatures captioned MINISTER FOR FINANCE and GOVERNOR respectively. Denomination numeral '5' appears in each corner within ornate scroll borders. |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of Mount Kilimanjaro rising snow-capped above the savanna plain, with a large acacia tree at left foreground and a smaller tree at mid-distance; a decorative floral spray occupies the right side, and a stack of geometric chevron guilloche panels borders the left margin. Denomination numeral '5' appears at lower left within a hexagonal cartouche. |
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Tanzania's first banknote series — Pick 1 through Pick 4 — was issued in June 1966, roughly two years after the country's formal establishment following the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. The Bank of Tanzania itself had only been established in 1966, replacing the East African Currency Board, which had issued a common currency shared with Kenya and Uganda. Breaking from that regional arrangement was a deliberate assertion of independent monetary policy, and this 5 Shilling note was among the first instruments of it.
De La Rue printed the entire inaugural series. The 5 Shilling denomination circulated heavily and survivors in collectable grades are genuinely harder to find than the higher values.