Catalog
50 Shillings
| Issuer | Banki Kuu ya Kenya / Central Bank of Kenya |
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| Year | 1996-2002 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Forward-facing portrait vignette of President Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi at centre, flanked by the national arms and a rose motif at right, with a mountain vignette at lower centre set against a multicolour guilloche underprint. Intaglio-printed inscriptions in both English and Swahili frame the portrait, with the denomination and legal tender clause positioned along the lower margin. |
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| Variants | P#36a1 - 01.01.1996 brown P#36a2 - 01.01.1996 black P#36b - 01.07.1997 P#36c - 01.07.1998 P#36d - 01.07.1999 P#36e - 01.07.2000 P#36f - 01.07.2001 P#36g - 01.07.2002 |
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Micah Cheserem served as CBK Governor from 1993 to 2001, a tenure defined by IMF structural adjustment pressures and the turbulent lead-up to Kenya's contested 1997 elections — the political atmosphere that surrounded much of this note's production window. B.K. Kipkulei signed as Secretary to the Treasury across the same stretch, an unusually stable pairing for a period of considerable economic stress.
Thomas De La Rue printed the series through multiple dated issues, all sharing the same signature combination — seven recorded signature varieties that are effectively identical in appearance, making date-specific attribution the only meaningful differentiator for collectors working this Pick number.