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1000 Shilings - Lake Tanganyika Catfish
| Issuer | Benki Kuu ya Tanzania (Bank of Tanzania) |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Size | 176.2 x 76.2 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | ONE THOUSANDTH TROY OUNCE 24K GOLD BENKI KUU YA TANZANIA DHAHABU KARATI ISHIRINI NA NEE TWENTY-FOUR KARAT PURE GOLD 1000 ONE THOUSAND SHILLINGS SYNODONTIS MULTIPUNCTATUS 1000 LEGAL TENDER GOLD AURUM / US & INTERNATIONAL PATENTS PENDING 2021 |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a vignette of a Dhow, the traditional lateen-rigged sailing vessel historically used for fishing and transportation on Lake Tanganyika, rendered against an aquatic-themed underprint consistent with the obverse palette. |
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Tanzania's polymer note program has leaned hard into commemorative formats, and this 1000 Shilingi piece is among the more technically unusual — gold-deposited polymer is a niche substrate, distinct from standard GUARDIAN or SAFEGUARD polymer stock, involving a vacuum-metallization process that bonds a thin gold layer to the film before printing. Very few circulating or semi-circulating issues worldwide use it.
Lake Tanganyika holds roughly 16% of the world's surface freshwater and harbors an extraordinary degree of endemic cichlid and non-cichlid species — the catfish designation here likely refers to one of the lake's endemic synodontid species, several of which exist nowhere else on Earth.