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500 Shillings Independence
| Issuer | Somalia |
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| Year | 1965-1966 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Facing portrait bust of President Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, the first President of the Somali Republic, rendered in high relief at center. A circular legend surrounds the effigy, with the country name and commemorative dates flanking the portrait. The inscription references the republic and the independence anniversary period 1960–1965, with the dates appearing below the bust. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Somalia's independence commemoratives of 1965–66 were issued under the civilian government of Prime Minister Abdi Rashid Ali Shermarke, just years before the 1969 coup that brought Siad Barre to power and effectively ended the democratic republic these coins were struck to celebrate. The series was produced in extremely limited quantities for a nascent state with no established minting infrastructure of its own — production was contracted to foreign facilities.
At 70 grams of .900 gold, this is one of the heaviest commemorative issues from any African nation in the 1960s, placing it firmly in the category of presentation pieces rather than anything approaching circulation.