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50 Shillings Elephant
| Issuer | Somalia |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Weight | 8.7 g |
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| Obverse lettering | SOMALI REPUBLIC 2013 |
| Reverse description | The copper-nickel centre field depicts a finely detailed African elephant in full profile walking to the left, rendered against a savannah landscape with rocky ground. The animal's prominent tusks, trunk, and musculature are rendered in high relief with naturalistic detail. The legend FIFTY SHILLINGS is inscribed along the lower portion of the brass outer ring, with a beaded border separating the inner disc from the ring on both sides. |
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Somalia's elephant coinage occupies an odd niche: issued under licensing arrangements with a European distributor rather than through any coherent domestic monetary policy, these pieces were never meaningfully intended for Somali circulation. The country had no functioning central bank capable of administering a coin program during this period. KM#250 is part of a long-running annual series that began in 2000, with designs updated periodically to sustain collector interest in Western markets.