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5000 Shilingi
| Issuer | Benki Kuu ya Tanzania (Bank of Tanzania) |
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| Year | 1995 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At right, a three-quarter-facing portrait of President Ali Hassan Mwinyi is printed in intaglio, with the national arms at upper centre and a rhinoceros vignette at lower left. The face is set over a multicolour guilloche underprint, with the issuer name and legal tender clause rendered in intaglio lettering across the design. |
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| Obverse lettering | BENKI KUU YA TANZANIA FEDHA HALALI KWA MALIPO YA SHILINGI ELFU TANO UHURU NA UMOJA SHILINGI ELFU TANO 5000 (Translation: Central Bank of Tanzania Legal tender for five thousand shillings Freedom and unity Five thousand shillings) |
| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a group of giraffes on the open savannah with Mount Kilimanjaro rising in the background, executed in fine intaglio line work. A decorative carved wooden chest appears at lower right, while ornamental diamond-pattern devices in the upper corners flank the denomination numerals. The issuer name runs across the top and the denomination inscription across the bottom of the design. |
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