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20 Shillings
| Issuer | Bank of Somaliland |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Value | 20 Shillings (20 SLS) |
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| Obverse description | A full-bodied greyhound stands in profile facing right in the central field, rendered in low relief with naturalistic detail. The animal is depicted in an alert, upright posture with its head raised. The circular legend REPUBLIC OF SOMALILAND runs along the upper periphery, and the date 2002 appears in the exergue below the figure. |
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| Reverse description | The large denomination numeral 20/- dominates the central field in bold raised lettering, rendered in the traditional shilling shorthand style. The circular legend BAANKA SOMALILAND runs along the upper periphery, flanked by two raised dots, while the inscription TWENTY SOMALILAND SHILLINGS curves along the lower periphery. |
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Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991, but has never received international recognition — meaning the Bank of Somaliland operates entirely outside the global financial system, with no IMF membership, no correspondent banking relationships, and no foreign exchange reserves in any conventional sense. Its coinage circulates domestically by local consensus rather than legal obligation enforced by any internationally recognized authority.
KM#6 was part of the first substantive coinage program the unrecognized republic issued for genuine circulation rather than collector export.