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5 Shilingi Central Bank
| Issuer | Bank of Tanzania |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Diameter | 31.5 mm |
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| Obverse description | Facing left portrait effigy of President Julius K. Nyerere occupying the left portion of the field, with the commemorative dates 1966–1976 inscribed along the lower periphery. The legend BENKI KUU YA TANZANIA arcs across the upper portion of the coin, flanked on either side by stylized foliate bush motifs rendered in a decorative manner consistent with East African design conventions of the period. |
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| Obverse lettering | BENKI KUU YA TANZANIA 1966-1976 |
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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.