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5000 Shillings
| Issuer | Baanka Somaliland |
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| Year | 2011-2015 |
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| Reference(s) | P#21 |
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| Obverse lettering | BAANKA SOMALILAND SHAN KUN SL SHILIN FIVE THOUSAND SOMALILAND SHILLINGS ٥٠٠٠ شن HARGEYSA GUDDOOMIYAHA LACAGHAYAHA (Translation: Bank of Somaliland Five Thousand Somaliland Shillings.) |
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| Protection type | Security thread |
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Somaliland's unrecognized status has always complicated its currency. No international central bank correspondent relationships, no IMF oversight, no external printing contracts with the major security printers — the Somaliland shilling exists entirely outside the frameworks that govern most national currencies, issued by a government that only a handful of states have ever formally acknowledged.
A security thread is the sole mechanical anti-counterfeiting measure on this note, a thin specification for a denomination this large. The two signatories — Abdi Dirir Abdi and Abdi Mohamoud Gullet — held office across the multi-year print window reflected in the 2011–2015 dating range.