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20 Shilingi
| Issuer | Benki Kuu ya Tanzania (Bank of Tanzania) |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Forward-facing portrait bust of President Julius Nyerere at right, the national arms at upper centre, and a torch vignette at left. The note carries bilingual legends in Swahili across the upper and lower registers, with the denomination expressed in both numerals and text. The overall layout is set against a multicolour guilloche underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | BENKI KUU YA TANZANIA FEDHA HALALI KWA MALIPO YA SHILINGI ISHIRINI UHURU NA UMOJA SHILINGI ISHIRINI 20 (Translation: Central Bank of Tanzania Legal tender for twenty shillings Freedom and unity Twenty shillings) |
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Tanzania's 1986 note series, of which this is part, was issued under considerable fiscal strain — the country had recently completed a painful IMF structural adjustment program that gutted public spending and forced a sharp devaluation of the shilling. The "With islands" designation in the catalog distinguishes this from earlier issues that omitted the offshore territories of Zanzibar and Pemba from the map printed on the note, a politically sensitive distinction given Zanzibar's semi-autonomous status and its history of union tensions with the mainland after 1964.
De La Rue's watermark on this series is the sole security measure — modest even by mid-1980s standards.