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1000 Shillings Richard F. Burton
| Issuer | Somaliland |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Value | 1000 Shillings (1000 SLS) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Richard Burton's 1854 expedition to Harar — the first by a European to enter the forbidden city and return alive — departed from Zeila, a port squarely within what is now Somaliland. The connection is genuinely geographic, not merely thematic. Somaliland issued this piece as a non-circulating legal tender novelty in the early years following its 1991 self-declared independence, a period when the territory was generating revenue through collector coins despite remaining unrecognized by any UN member state.
The X# designation confirms its listing in Unusual World Coins rather than the standard catalog — a common situation for Somaliland issues of this period.