Was this the first Somali currency?

[Sir-Luggoyo]

http://www.banknotes.com/SO1.JPG

[Grant]

1962. In 1966 $100US was about 600 ShSo.

When were the first duraluminum Somali shillings minted?

[Sir-Luggoyo]

I really don't know. I was trying to find out how the first Somali currency actually looked like.

[Warsan_Star_Muslimah]

Why are you trying to find out?



Wasalam

[Grant]

The stuff I saw was covered with VERY colorful pictures of animals and birds. Bright blues, reds and greens. I was told it was printed in Europe, I think Italy.

[sheekh-Farax-zero]

may be it is the currency we used in the south before independence

[The_Emperior5]

Somaliland coins

[AbdiWahab252]

That is signed by the First head of the Central Bank, Haji Farax

[sheekh-Farax-zero]

1994 those coins are still looking for recognition

[The_Emperior5]

1994 those coins are still looking for recognition

Dont worry sxb about our coins and its recognition Somaliyadada ka haddal iyo the republic of kunfuriya


french SOmaliland Djbouti money in colonial time

[CoolPoisoninthisbijj]

may be it is the currency we used in the south before independence

^^ what the fock is that italian writing. its 1962 and still has italian writing?

real somali money

[AbdiWahab252]

Coolposion,

Italian was the official government language until the 1970s since Somali did not have a script since 1972 or 1974.

The "N" Somali (New Somali Shilling) was ordered by Siyaad in 1989 to replace the Somali shilling.

[sheekh-Farax-zero]

i have never seen that N50 currency

[AbdiWahab252]

Sheekh,

Ali Mahdi's government took the order from the European firm that printed it. It was used in North Muqdisho from 1991-1994.

[James Dahl]

The first currency minted in Somalia was minted by the Sultanate of Mogadishu in the 13th century and stopped in the 16th century when trade opportunities ended due to Portuguese predations. In the north the Ottoman Akce probably started being used by the 1520s, or some local variant of the silver pieces.
When Oman took over the east coast in the 1740s and kicked out the Portuguese, the Maria Theresa thaler bizarrely enough became the currency of East Africa from Abyssinia to Mogadishu.
In the north the Egyptian Pound replaced the Akce when Egypt became independent (Which Somalia and Sudan were part of), and later the Indian Rupee was used when Egyptian Somaliland became British Somaliland (which was part of British India) in the late 19th century.