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50 000 Shillings Independence
| Issuer | Bank of Tanzania |
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| Year | 2011 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | SHILINGI 50,000 1961 - 2011 UHURU NA UMOJA |
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Tanzania's 50th anniversary of independence from British rule fell in 2011, marking the half-century since Tanganyika achieved self-governance in December 1961 — Julius Nyerere's TANU party having won the pre-independence elections with near-total legislative dominance. The commemorative silver program issued that year was modest in scope, with KM#73 among a small group of pieces authorized specifically for the jubilee.
Nyerere declined a presidential salary for much of his tenure and famously earned the Swahili honorific *Mwalimu* — "teacher" — before holding any office.