Kenyan shilling
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- KES
- Ancestry branch
- Indian rupee
Its place in the family
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No successor is established here.
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Kenyan shilling
East African shilling
1 later contribution joined this currency. See those connections →
Kenya and Uganda florin
Indian rupee
1 later contribution joined this currency. See those connections →
Calcutta sicca rupee
Mughal rupee–dam accounting
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
The story
CBK dates first national shilling coins to April 10, 1967. [1]
Turning points
Notes legalised before issue
CBK distinguishes Legal Notice 252 of July 1, 1966 from banknote issue: the notes were legalised but not yet issued on that date. [2]
Regional notes tender notice
Legal Notice 253 keeps EACB notes as Kenyan tender for one year from the start of their exchange into national currency; it supplies no exchange-start date. [3]
Sources and evidence
- Central Bank of Kenya · Currency History — national issue and regional currency withdrawal
- Central Bank of Kenya · Currency History — national issue and regional currency withdrawal
- Kenya Minister for Finance; Kenya Law · Legal Tender of East African Shillings — Legal Notice 253 of 1966, original-date version
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“Kenyan shilling.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Updated 2026-10-13; data version v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000234.html