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5 Shillings With Arabic numerals and text
| Issuer | Banki Kuu ya Kenya / Central Bank of Kenya |
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| Year | 1966-1968 |
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| Size | 135 × 68 mm |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta in three-quarter right-facing bust at left, with the national arms at centre. Bilingual legends in English and Swahili appear across the note, alongside Arabic script numerals and text. Guilloche underprint frames the design with ornate latticework borders. |
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| Reverse description | A woman in traditional dress harvests coffee berries from a shrub at right, set against an expansive plantation landscape stretching toward a mountain range in the background, with thatched huts and palm trees in the middle ground. The vignette is rendered in intaglio in a warm reddish-brown palette. Denomination numerals, including Arabic-script figures, appear in each corner within guilloche rosettes, with the value inscription centred at the top. |
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| Protection description | Lion head |
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