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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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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a historic stone tower or lighthouse rendered in intaglio on a fine geometric guilloche underprint in teal. The Somali bank title BANKIGA DHEXE EE SOOMAALIYA appears within a cartouche at upper centre, with the Somali Coat-of-Arms at upper right. The denomination 50000 SHILIN is displayed in bold lettering at upper left, and the legend 50000 SHILIN SOOMAALI is repeated along the lower margin, with 50000 at lower right. |
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| Protection type | Security thread, Watermark |
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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.