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20 Shilingi
| Issuer | Benki Kuu ya Tanzania (Bank of Tanzania) |
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| Year | 1987 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of President Ali Hassan Mwinyi in three-quarter front-facing bust at right, the national arms at upper centre, and a torch vignette at left. The note carries the issuer inscription and legal tender clause in Swahili, with the denomination expressed both in words and numerals. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of workers engaged in industrial labour within a tyre factory, with a torch at right and a map of Tanzania including the offshore islands of Zanzibar and Pemba at upper centre. The reverse carries the issuer name and denomination in Swahili. |
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Tanzania's 20 Shilingi notes of this period were printed by Thomas De La Rue under a long-running contract that covered most of the Bank of Tanzania's output through the 1980s. The series to which P#15 belongs was introduced as the country was still navigating the economic wreckage left by the Ujamaa collectivization program — by 1987, the shilling had lost enormous purchasing power and the 20 Shilingi denomination, once meaningful, was worth very little in daily transactions.
Watermark security was the sole anti-counterfeiting measure on this issue, a fairly minimal specification for the period.