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10 Shillings With Arabic numerals and text
| Issuer | Banki Kuu ya Kenya / Central Bank of Kenya |
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| Year | 1966-1968 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1966-date) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta facing three-quarters right at left, with the Kenyan coat of arms as a central vignette set within an intricate guilloche underprint. The serial number appears twice at lower left and upper right, with the date at lower right below the signature panel. |
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| Protection description | Lion head |
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Kenya's earliest central bank issues, including this note, were authorized under the Central Bank of Kenya Act of 1966, which formally severed the country's currency ties with the East African Currency Board — a colonial institution that had served British East Africa since 1919. The Board's notes had circulated alongside this series briefly during the transition, creating genuine confusion at the commercial bank level.
Bradbury Wilkinson printed the full inaugural Kenya series from their New Malden works. The Barawski signature here is Leon Barawski, the Central Bank's first Governor, a Polish-born economist whose tenure lasted only a few years into the new institution's operation.