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1000 Shillings
| Issuer | Banki Kuu ya Kenya / Central Bank of Kenya |
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| Year | 1994-1995 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Forward-facing portrait bust of President Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi at centre left, with the national arms at centre and a mountain vignette at lower centre; a rose motif appears at right within a guilloche-patterned underprint. Bilingual inscriptions in Swahili and English frame the design, with facsimile signature of the President beneath the portrait. |
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| Signature(s) | Micah D. Cheserem / B.K. Kipkulei Micah D. Cheserem / B.K. Kipkulei |
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Micah Cheserem became CBK Governor in 1993, inheriting an institution badly compromised by the Goldenberg scandal — a fraudulent gold and diamond export scheme that had cost Kenya an estimated KSh 5.8 billion in government compensation payments. The 1994–1995 note series was issued against that backdrop of institutional pressure to restore credibility, though the notes themselves show no outward sign of the crisis.
Thomas De La Rue had printed Kenyan currency since independence, and P#34 continues that unbroken relationship. The 1000-shilling denomination was the highest in circulation at the time — a note that most ordinary Kenyans rarely handled.