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5 Shillings Western numerals only
| Issuer | Banki Kuu ya Kenya / Central Bank of Kenya |
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| Year | 1969-1973 |
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| Value | 5 Shillings (5 KES) |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 BANKi KUU YA KENYA CENTRAL BANK OF KENYA LEGAL TENDER FOR FIVE SHILLINGS SHILINGI TANO ONE HUNDRED SHILLINGS THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF KENYA MZEE JOMO KENYATTA FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS (Translation: Central Bank of Kenya Five shillings) |
| Reverse description | A finely engraved vignette at right portrays a woman in traditional dress harvesting coffee berries from a laden branch, with an expansive plantation landscape extending across the centre and left of the note. Rolling cultivated fields, scattered thatched homesteads, palm trees, and a mountainous horizon compose the pastoral background. Guilloche borders frame all four edges, with the denomination numeral 5 repeated in each corner. |
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Kenya's earliest Central Bank issues were printed by Bradbury Wilkinson before the country had established its own security printing infrastructure. This 5 Shillings note, Pick 6, carries "Western numerals only" in its catalog designation to distinguish it from a companion variety that incorporates Eastern Arabic numeral forms — a distinction that matters for completeness but reflects a fairly minor typographic decision rather than a separate emission.
Duncan Ndegwa served as the first Kenyan-born Governor of the Central Bank, appointed in 1967 after the departure of the bank's founding British leadership. His signature dominates this series.