50 Shilin / 50 Shillings

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Reverse description	Central pastoral vignette showing a woman in traditional dress leading a donkey upon which two children are seated, set against a lush background of banana plantation foliage rendered in olive-green intaglio. A large watermark window appears to the left within a dark guilloche border panel, and the denomination is expressed in both Latin and Arabic numerals at the corners against a warm ochre and brown multicolour underprint.
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Comments	The Mogadiscio Northern Forces notes of 1991 were produced amid the collapse of the Siad Barre government and the simultaneous fragmentation of Somalia into competing armed factions. These are not central bank issues — they are quasi-military scrip, printed to assert territorial and economic authority by forces that controlled the capital's northern districts during some of the most intense urban fighting of the civil war. The Pick R2 designation places this in the "regional" series, a cataloguing acknowledgment that its issuing authority was never internationally recognized. Surviving examples are scarce precisely because the currency had no stable circulation base — the conflict made orderly monetary use impossible almost from the date of issue.