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50 Shilingi
| Issuer | Benki Kuu ya Tanzania (Bank of Tanzania) |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1966-date) |
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| Obverse description | Forward-facing portrait bust of President Julius Nyerere at right, the national arms at upper centre, and a torch vignette at left. Guilloche underprint covers the note field, with the denomination repeated in both numerals and Swahili text across the design. Inscriptions in Swahili identify the issuing authority and affirm legal tender status. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette shows five men engaged in cooperative house construction at left and centre, with a map of Tanzania — rendered without offshore islands — at upper centre, and a torch at right. The composition reflects ujamaa self-reliance themes characteristic of Tanzanian banknote design of this period. Denomination and issuing authority are inscribed in Swahili above and below the central vignette. |
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The "Without islands" designation refers to an early printing state in which the map of Tanzania omitted the offshore islands of Zanzibar and Pemba — a politically sensitive oversight given that Tanzania is itself a union of the mainland (Tanganyika) and Zanzibar, formalized in 1964. The error was corrected in subsequent printings, making this earlier version the scarcer of the two states.
De La Rue produced multiple Tanzanian series through this period, and plate corrections of this kind were not always announced publicly.