50 Shillings Gaius Julius Caesar

Somalia's late-1990s and early-2000s coin program was largely a licensing operation run through foreign minting agencies, with Mogadishu's transitional authorities having little involvement beyond lending the country's name to issues destined almost entirely for the collector market. This particular piece was never intended for circulation — Somalia had no functioning central bank capable of administering a gold coinage at the time of issue.

Caesar's assassination on the Ides of March, 44 BC came less than a year after he became the first living Roman to appear on a coin struck in Rome itself, a deliberate break with Republican tradition that his enemies read as a declaration of monarchical ambition.