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5 Scellini / 5 Somali Shillings
| Issuer | Banca Nazionale Somala |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| Size | 156 x 78 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a traditional Somali dhow under full sail on open water, rendered in intaglio within a light blue and purple multicolour underprint. Intricate geometric and arabesque border ornaments frame the design on all sides. The denomination appears in Arabic script at lower right and in English at upper right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Banca Nazionale Somala was dissolved just a year after this note's issue, replaced by the Bankiga Qaranka Soomaaliyeed following the nationalization of the banking sector under Siad Barre's Supreme Revolutionary Council. Notes from this short-lived institution exist in relatively limited numbers simply because its operational window was so narrow — the bank had only been established in 1960 at independence, giving it just over a decade before the state absorbed it entirely.
Thomas De La Rue produced the series, as they did for much of Somalia's early post-independence paper currency.