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5 Shillings
| Issuer | Central Bank of Kenya |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Value | 5 Shillings |
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| Obverse description | The brass-plated steel centre features the Coat of Arms of Kenya, comprising a Maasai shield bearing a traditional pattern at centre, flanked by two rampant lions as supporters, with crossed spears behind the shield and a banner below inscribed HARAMBEE. The date 2018 appears in the field beneath the arms. The nickel-plated steel outer ring carries the bilingual legend REPUBLIC OF KENYA to the upper arc and JAMHURI YA KENYA to the lower arc, each separated by a raised dot. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF KENYA 2018 HARAMBE JAMHURI YA KENYA (Translation: All pull together. Republic of Kenya.) |
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Kenya's 2018 coinage series was issued under a directive from President Uhuru Kenyatta's administration mandating the removal of colonial-era portraits from circulating currency — a policy shift that replaced the long-running image of founding president Jomo Kenyatta with indigenous wildlife and national symbols. The 5 shilling denomination had carried a portrait of Jomo Kenyatta since independence-era issues, making the 2018 redesign a deliberate break from that numismatic tradition.
KM#46 superseded KM#30, which had circulated for decades in a simpler nickel-plated steel format before the bimetallic construction was adopted.