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20.000 Shilin / 20.000 Shillings
| Issuer | Central Bank of Somalia |
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| Year | 2010 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Central Bank of Somalia building in Mogadishu, rendered in a ghosted intaglio style against an elaborate multicoloured guilloche underprint with radiating rosette patterns in gold, blue, and green. The Somali inscription appears at upper centre and the denomination in both numerals and text is displayed at left and along the lower margin. A blank watermark panel is reserved at right. |
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| Protection description | Pixelated lion and electrotype 20000 |
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Somalia's Central Bank had been effectively non-functional since the collapse of Siad Barre's government in 1991. By 2010, the Transitional Federal Government — itself operating without stable territorial control — authorized new currency issues, but physical distribution remained severely limited. Notes nominally issued under the Central Bank's name circulated alongside a flood of "Somaliland shilling" issues and old pre-collapse stock, creating a fractured monetary environment where denomination credibility was almost entirely separate from institutional credibility.
The 20,000 shilling denomination reflects the severe cumulative inflation that had eroded earlier face values into irrelevance. A watermark-only security specification at this date suggests constrained procurement options.