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50 Shillings
| Issuer | Banki Kuu ya Kenya / Central Bank of Kenya |
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| Year | 1990-1992 |
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| Value | 50 Shillings |
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| Obverse description | Front-facing portrait of President Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi at right, with the national arms at centre and a floral vignette at left. The design is rendered in intaglio with a fine guilloche underprint throughout. The issuing authority's name appears in both English and Swahili across the upper portion of the note. |
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| Protection description | Lion head watermark |
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Kenya's third series of shilling notes coincided with a period of acute political pressure on the Central Bank — Eric Kotut served as Governor from 1988 to 1993, his tenure bookended by the controversial single-party consolidation under Moi and the eventual return to multiparty elections in 1991. The two signature combinations on P#26 reflect Kotut's different deputy counterparts across the run, making the pairing a useful proxy for narrowing issue dates within the 1990–1992 window.
Thomas De La Rue had printed Kenyan currency since independence, and this series continued that unbroken relationship.