1 Shilling Dragon Blood Tree

Somaliland issues no internationally recognized legal tender — it declared independence from Somalia in 1991 but remains unrecognized by any UN member state. These steel pad-printed pieces are produced for the collector market rather than domestic circulation, a common arrangement for unrecognized or micro-territory issuers working with private minting houses.

The Dragon Blood Tree is native to Socotra, an island administered by Yemen, not Somaliland — a geographical curiosity that says more about the speculative nature of this issue's thematic choices than about any local botanical heritage.