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20 Scellini / 20 Somali Shillings
| Issuer | Banca Nazionale Somala |
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| Year | 1968-1971 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Brown and blue on light underprint. The central vignette occupies the right two-thirds of the note and presents an intaglio view of the Banca Nazionale Somala headquarters in Mogadishu, a neoclassical building with a prominent arched entrance, flanked by trees rendered in blue-grey tones. A large circular guilloche watermark space occupies the left portion. Arabic script inscription appears at the top, with the denomination '20 SOMALI SHILLINGS' at right, and an elaborate interlaced geometric border frames the entire design. |
| Reverse lettering | البنك الوطني الصومالي BANCA NAZIONALE SOMALA 20 SOMALI SHILLINGS |
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The Banca Nazionale Somala was Somalia's central bank from independence in 1960 until it was replaced by the Somali National Bank in 1975. This series, printed by Thomas De La Rue across a four-year window, was issued during a period that bracketed a pivotal rupture: the October 1969 coup in which General Mohamed Siad Barre seized power following the assassination of President Shermarke. Notes issued before and after that date circulated under very different political realities, though the physical notes themselves were unchanged.
The bilingual denomination — Scellini and Shillings — reflects Somalia's post-colonial administrative inheritance from both Italian and British Somaliland.