50.000 Shilin / 50.000 Shillings

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.