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50.000 Shilin / 50.000 Shillings
| Issuer | Central Bank of Somalia |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1962-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a mosque with a prominent minaret set against an elaborate geometric guilloche underprint in teal and green tones. The Arabic bank title البنك المركزي الصومالي appears at upper centre, with the denomination 50000 and Arabic legend شلنا صوماليا at upper left; two manuscript signatures appear at lower left above their Arabic titles, flanked by a blank security panel. The issuer name CENTRAL BANK OF SOMALIA is inscribed in letterpress along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANKIGA DHEXE EE SOOMAALIYA 50000 SHILIN 50000 SHILIN SOOMAALI 50000 |
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By 2010, the Central Bank of Somalia had been effectively non-functional for nearly two decades — the state itself had collapsed in 1991. Notes continued to be issued under its name regardless, printed in Khartoum, and the denomination itself signals the scale of accumulated inflation that had destroyed earlier Somali shilling values. The 50,000-shilling note exists not because a functioning central bank needed it, but because the arithmetic of inflation demanded it.
The Sudan Currency Printing Press has supplied a number of fragile or transitional governments across the region, making its Khartoum facility an unlikely hub for East African monetary production.