Product Description
SCWPM.#36a1 - TBB.#B311a - Date: 1989
Grade: Unc/au. - Signature: 5 - Series: D021
Description: Colour: Green.
Front: Fisherman repairing net; spiny lobster; coat of arms; star; fish; man poling boat.
Back: Solidarity mosque in Mogadishu. - Solid yellow security thread.
Watermark: Sayyīd Mohammed Abdullah Hassan.
Printer: (TDLR). - Size: 148 x 74 mm.
Material: paper
Somalia,
officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa. The country is on the Horn of Africa and is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, the Indian Ocean to the east, and Kenya to the southwest. Somalia has the longest coastline on Africa's mainland. In antiquity, Somalia was an important commercial center. During the Middle Ages, several powerful Somali empires dominated the regional trade, including the Imamate of Awsame, Ajuran Sultanate, the Adal Sultanate, and the Sultanate of the Geledi. In the late 19th century, Somali sultanates were colonized by the Italian and British Empires, who merged all of these tribal territories into two colonies: Italian Somaliland and British Somaliland. More about Somalia on Wikipedia.
