Product Description
SOMALIA - Value - 20.000 Shilin SoomaaliB321a - W42 (PNL): 20,000 shilin (shillings)
Issued by - Bankiga Dhexe ee Soomaaliya / Central Bank of Somalia
Date: 2010 - Signature: 7 - Prefix: EA -Unissued.
Description: Colour: Brown, green, and purple.
Front: Arabic and English; National Theatre of Somalia in Mogadishu.
Back: English and Somali text; trees and Central Bank of Somalia headquarters building in Mogadishu; Somali coat of arms.
Windowed security thread with demetalized Central Bank of Somalia and Arabic text.
Watermark: Pixelated lion and electrotype 20000.
Printer: (Unknown). - Size: 139 x 66 mm. -
Material: Paper.
More info about these series:
In the early 2010s, Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government ordered a new family of banknotes to be printed in Sudan.
By 2013, Somalia’s new federal government declared that the introduction of the notes was postponed until an unspecified later date, pending the strengthening of financial institutions in Somalia.
In 2018, the Central Bank of Somalia indicated that the government and the International Monetary Fund was preparing to print new 1.000, 2.000, 5.000*, 10.000, 20.000, and 50.000 Shilin notes.
In 2021, the Central Bank of Somalia said that huge amounts of Somali Shilin notes remained in a Sudanese warehouse.
In 2023, a civil war broke out in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Subsequently these unissued Somali notes began to appear scattered on the streets of Khartoum.
* not confirmed
