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50 Shillings Silver Commemorative Issue, small type
| Issuer | Baanka Somaliland |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Size | 120 × 53 mm |
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| Reverse description | A camel caravan vignette occupies the central field, rendered with two nomadic figures and three camels traversing the landscape; in the background rise the twin Naasa Hablood hills — locally known as 'Girl's Breast' — situated near Hargeisa, with denomination inscriptions in English, Somali, and Arabic positioned across the note. |
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| Variants | P#17a - Overprint on #4a (old date 1994) |
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Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991, but no government has ever formally recognized it. That political limbo makes every piece of currency it has issued a minor anomaly — legal tender within a territory that does not officially exist in international law. The 1996 series, of which Pick 17 is part, was one of the earliest efforts to establish a functioning monetary system for the breakaway republic's domestic economy.
The "small type" designation distinguishes this from a larger-format variant in the same commemorative issue — a subtle but cataloguable difference that affects plate identification.