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5 Shilingi Central Bank
| Issuer | Bank of Tanzania |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Segmented reeding |
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Tanzania's 1976 coinage came during Julius Nyerere's Ujamaa experiment — a forced collectivization program that had already destabilized the agricultural economy and was straining state finances. The Bank of Tanzania issued this series partly to reinforce institutional legitimacy at a moment when the ujamaa villages policy was producing widespread food shortages and rural resentment.
The KM#10 is not a scarce coin by any measure, but circulated examples in genuinely fine condition are harder to locate than mintage figures suggest — Tanzania's equatorial climate and the coin's copper-nickel composition produced accelerated surface degradation in circulation.