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500 Shillings
| Issuer | Bank of Tanzania |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Reference(s) | P#40 |
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| Obverse lettering | BENKI KUU YA TANZANIA FEDHA HALALI KWA MALIPO YA SHILINGI MIA TANO UHURU NA UMOJA ABEID AMANI KARUME SHILINGI MIA TANO 500 (Translation: Central Bank of Tanzania Legal tender for five hundred shillings Freedom and unity Five hundred shillings) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The P#40 500 Shillings was part of a broader reissue program Tanzania undertook in the late 2000s to refresh its note series with improved security specifications — though by international standards, a watermark-only feature set was already considered minimal by 2010, when most comparable central banks had moved toward windowed threads and color-shifting inks. Thomas De La Rue's involvement here is unremarkable; the firm had held the Tanzania printing contract across multiple series going back decades.
The 120 × 60 mm format is notably small even within the regional East African series, making handling and sorting in high-volume rural markets more difficult — a practical complaint documented among Tanzanian traders at the time.