Somali shilling
Somali shilling: a currency still in use.
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- SOS
- Ancestry branch
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Where this money came from
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This currency also received later contributions, distinguished below from its origins.
No successor is established here. This does not imply extinction.
The story
The issuer distinguishes a 1961 northern currency-unification decree from first Somali-shilling banknotes in 1962. [1]
Covered somalo and EAS monetary obligations payable in republic and books of account converted into Somali shillings. [2]
Sources and evidence
- Central Bank of Somalia · History of the Central Bank of Somalia C520 ↗
- Somali Republic · Decreto-legge6marzo 1961, n.2, Ordinamento Monetario; Bollettino Ufficiale12marzo 1961, Supplement1No3 C1501 ↗
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“Somali shilling.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000240.html