Abeid Amani Karume Portrait facing slightly to left.
Obverse script
Latin
Obverse lettering
SHEIKH ABEID AMANI KARUME·RAIS WA
KWANZA WA ZANZIBAR
·2014· (Translation: THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF ZANZIBAR)
Reverse description
Buffalo facing slightly left, above it a latent image (showing a number or a text) The African buffalo or Cape buffalo (Binomial Name: Syncerus caffer)
Reverse script
Latin
Reverse lettering
500 or BOT (latent image)
SHILINGI MIA TANO
500 (Translation: Five Hundred Shillings.)