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20 Shillings
| Issuer | Banki Kuu ya Kenya / Central Bank of Kenya |
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| Year | 1988-1992 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Intaglio vignette of the Moi International Sports Centre at centre, rendered in fine line engraving against a multicolour guilloche underprint in blue, pink, and teal tones; Mount Kenya rises in the background at left, with a traditional rungu (club) depicted at the far left margin. Elaborate rosette and lathe-work patterns fill the right portion of the design. Denomination numerals appear in each corner within ornamental cartouches. |
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| Protection description | Lion head watermark |
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Eric Kotut served as Central Bank of Kenya Governor from 1988 to 1993, a period of mounting pressure on Kenya's single-party state under Moi — multiparty agitation was accelerating, and donor countries were increasingly linking aid disbursements to political reform. The repeated Kotut signature combinations across this issue reflect normal annual replacements of the deputy governor co-signatory, not any exceptional institutional instability.
Thomas De La Rue had printed Kenyan currency continuously since independence, and the P#25 series shows no significant departure from that established production relationship.