Catalog
500 Shilingi / Shillings
| Issuer | Banki Kuu ya Kenya / Central Bank of Kenya |
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| Year | 2005-2010 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1966-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANKI KUU YA KENYA CENTRAL BANK OF KENYA 500 SHILINGI MIA TANO LEGAL TENDER FOR FIVE HUNDRED SHILLINGS THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF KENYA MZEE JOMO KENYATTA FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS GOVERNOR MEMBER |
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| Protection description | Jomo Kenyatta portrait visible when held to light; embedded security thread with microtext running vertically through the note; denomination numeral |
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| Comments |
By the mid-2000s, the Central Bank of Kenya had moved its De La Rue printing operations to Nairobi — one of relatively few African central banks to have banknote production physically on home soil rather than contracting output to facilities in the UK. The P#50 series reflects that arrangement across multiple signature combinations, with Njuguna Ndung'u replacing Andrew Mullei as Governor following Mullei's suspension amid a high-profile dispute with the Kibaki government in 2006.
Nahashon Nyagah's persistence across all three signature variants, as the Deputy Governor, gives the series an unusual continuity at the secondary signatory position while the top seat changed hands under political pressure.