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500 Shillings
| Issuer | Bank of Tanzania |
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| Year | 2010 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents the main building of the University of Dar es Salaam in intaglio engraving, its distinctive modernist arched facade set against a multicoloured guilloche underprint with repeating diamond patterns. A group of graduating students in academic dress occupies the right foreground. The caduceus of Asclepius — a rod entwined by a serpent — appears as a vignette at the left margin. |
| Reverse lettering | BANK OF TANZANIA 500 FIVE HUNDRED SHILLINGS |
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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.