Evidence coverage: 1921–1969. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
East African-shilling obligations payable in the Somali Republic were converted at parity into Somali shillings in1961,with accounting records required in that unit. Explicit primary account/debt conversion resolves the ancestry, independently of later1962 note issue. Regional northern input is an absorption into an already established southern lineage. Exact conversion day remains unspecified.
Sources and qualifications →The 1922 transition in Tanganyika absorbed German East African rupee circulation into the existing East African shilling system. Admit qualified regional succession; the exact all-contract conversion clause remains uninspected. This is not the founding of the shilling.
Sources and qualifications →Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
Churchill’s 1921 statement describes the April 1920 Kenya/Uganda order adopting a local florin worth two sterling shillings and temporarily rating Indian rupees at that value.
C475The May 1921 decision uses a local shilling equal to half a florin and converts rupee contracts at two local shillings per rupee; extension to Tanganyika is prospective.
C476CBK reports regional banknotes losing tender in Kenya in September 1967 and regional coins in April 1969.
C474CBK reports regional banknotes losing tender in Kenya in September 1967 and regional coins in April 1969.
C474Kenyan Proclamation 177 brings the 1921 principal currency order and its No.2 amendment into force on 1 January 1922. Inference: Article 9(2) requires commencement by territorial proclamation; Kenya’s 1 January 1922 date does not establish Uganda’s commencement or first physical shilling issue.
C612, C616Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Tanzania’s original Bank Act applies to both Tanganyika and Zanzibar and establishes the shilling divided into 100 cents.
ss.2 and 24
Short title says 1965; enactment is No.12 of 1966.
Commencement proclamation and actual territorial withdrawal notices not inspected.
For the transition provisions, one East African shilling equals one Tanzanian shilling.
s.36
Short title says 1965; enactment is No.12 of 1966.
Commencement proclamation and actual territorial withdrawal notices not inspected.
Former regional notes/coins remain tender until proclamation; free exchange on demand applies while they remain tender, with later exchange periods separately authorisable.
ss.33–34
Short title says 1965; enactment is No.12 of 1966.
Commencement proclamation and actual territorial withdrawal notices not inspected.
Covered laws and instruments referencing East African shillings, cents or the twenty-shilling pound are converted under the new Act.
s.35
Short title says 1965; enactment is No.12 of 1966.
Commencement proclamation and actual territorial withdrawal notices not inspected.
CBK distinguishes Legal Notice 252 of 1 July 1966 from banknote issue: the notes were legalised but not yet issued on that date.
paragraph beginning With the establishment of individual Central Banks
Notice itself and original exchange law not inspected.
Regional withdrawals are month precision; no universal regional withdrawal day is inferred.
Earlier barter-origin narrative not used.
CBK reports regional banknotes losing tender in Kenya in September 1967 and regional coins in April 1969.
national-currency transition paragraph; month precision
Notice itself and original exchange law not inspected.
Regional withdrawals are month precision; no universal regional withdrawal day is inferred.
Earlier barter-origin narrative not used.
Churchill’s 1921 statement describes the April 1920 Kenya/Uganda order adopting a local florin worth two sterling shillings and temporarily rating Indian rupees at that value.
HC 30 May 1921, vol.142 cc.596–598, first policy paragraph
Announced policy is not a dated first-issue observation.
Kenya/Uganda and prospective Tanganyika extension must remain distinct.
The May 1921 decision uses a local shilling equal to half a florin and converts rupee contracts at two local shillings per rupee; extension to Tanganyika is prospective.
same statement, decision and Tanganyika paragraphs
Announced policy is not a dated first-issue observation.
Kenya/Uganda and prospective Tanganyika extension must remain distinct.
Kenyan Proclamation 177 brings the 1921 principal currency order and its No.2 amendment into force on 1 January 1922.
Proclamation 177, printed p.1066
Kenya commencement is not automatically Uganda or Tanganyika commencement.
The same-date amendment replaces the principal order’s subsidiary-coin exception.
First physical shilling issue and actual later demonetisation remain separate questions.
Article 5 converts covered former rupee or florin amounts into twice as many shillings, and former cents into twice as many shilling cents.
10 August 1921 order, art.5(2)–(3), printed p.1067
Kenya commencement is not automatically Uganda or Tanganyika commencement.
The same-date amendment replaces the principal order’s subsidiary-coin exception.
First physical shilling issue and actual later demonetisation remain separate questions.
Article 9(3) preserves old notes and coins as tender until separately ended, rating each rupee or florin at two shillings.
art.9(3), printed p.1067; subsidiary exception must be read as amended
Kenya commencement is not automatically Uganda or Tanganyika commencement.
The same-date amendment replaces the principal order’s subsidiary-coin exception.
First physical shilling issue and actual later demonetisation remain separate questions.
The 7 November amendment replaces the principal order’s subsidiary-coin exception with two shilling cents for one florin cent, effective alongside the principal order.
No.2 order, arts.2–3, printed p.1067
Kenya commencement is not automatically Uganda or Tanganyika commencement.
The same-date amendment replaces the principal order’s subsidiary-coin exception.
First physical shilling issue and actual later demonetisation remain separate questions.
Article 9(2) requires commencement by territorial proclamation; Kenya’s 1 January 1922 date does not establish Uganda’s commencement or first physical shilling issue.
principal order art.9(2), Proclamation 177; editorial scope
Kenya commencement is not automatically Uganda or Tanganyika commencement.
The same-date amendment replaces the principal order’s subsidiary-coin exception.
First physical shilling issue and actual later demonetisation remain separate questions.
Article 5(1) values covered sterling payments at twenty local shillings per pound; this standard relationship is separate from rupee/florin succession.
principal order art.5(1), printed p.1067; editorial classification
Kenya commencement is not automatically Uganda or Tanganyika commencement.
The same-date amendment replaces the principal order’s subsidiary-coin exception.
First physical shilling issue and actual later demonetisation remain separate questions.
Kenya Act s.23 requires at-par exchange of EACB notes and coins while they remain tender, with further at-par exchange periods separately authorisable.
s.23, historical version at 3 June 1969
Consolidated historical text, not the as-made Gazette.
Section-specific original commencement notices and actual exchange-start/withdrawal notices remain uninspected.
Section 22(4) leaves former-board tender duration to ministerial determination; s.24 separately qualifies exchange of damaged currency.
ss.22(4) and 24
Consolidated historical text, not the as-made Gazette.
Section-specific original commencement notices and actual exchange-start/withdrawal notices remain uninspected.
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.
Complete operative notice, printed p.1 / PDF p.3
Version dated 23 August 1966.
One-year interval runs from exchange start, which this notice does not date.
It covers notes, not a universal coin withdrawal deadline.
The same indexed timeline says EACB notes ceased Ugandan tender on 1 April 1967; this is retained as a disputed report, not an adjudicated withdrawal date.
timeline entry 1 April 1967; indexed-only, conflict with S345
Issuer transfer is distinct from currency conversion.
Timeline’s 1 April 1967 EACB-note withdrawal differs from the September date in an indexed IMF legal account; original Ugandan notice is required.
Indexed institutional history and timeline entries for 1966–1967 inspected; direct page exposed no historical body
Gold’s indexed IMF account reports former-board notes losing tender on 14 September 1967 under a joint decision; original territorial notices are needed to resolve Uganda’s conflicting timeline.
printed pp.115–116, national currency transition; indexed-only
Statute summaries and regional 14 September 1967 withdrawal date are not substituted for the original territorial acts/notices.
Conflicts with the indexed Bank of Uganda timeline remain open.
Indexed printed pp.115–116 on national East African currencies and former-board exchange inspected; full chapter retrieval returned 403
Ugandan shilling issues succeeded the East African Currency Board currency. The national-note history and separate coin timeline differ in milestone dates; retain the 1966–1967 interval. The 1987 confiscatory reform remains a continuity event requiring fuller scope.
Opening paragraphs: national issue after the East African Currency Board, dated 1966
Only the 1966 national-issue year is used.
No precise date, par conversion or 1987 statutory scope is verified by this access.
Search-indexed opening sentence inspected; direct page returned errors including HTTP 502
Currency unification brought the northern East African shilling into the Somali-shilling system under the 1961 decree and 1962 issues. This records the northern input only.
Post-independence notable milestones
Ethiopia’s 1945 birr/dollar system followed the East African shilling, the preceding official money of account and legal tender.
Sections 1941–1945 and 1945–1976; account-money and currency succession
Substantive search-indexed passage inspected; direct full-document retrieval failed or returned blocking/error content.
East African-shilling obligations payable in the Somali Republic were converted at parity into Somali shillings in 1961,with accounting records required in that unit.
Arts8–11,printed pp5–6
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Arts8–11,printed pp5–6
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Correct ratification number13; secondary history number3 is a transcription error.
The South Arabian dinar replaced East African shillings in 1965; the currency-board research traces the replacement and exchange, with outgoing currency retained for a three-month overlap.
Printed pp213–215 (South Arabia); pp228–229 (Sudan)
Underlying annual reports and ordinances not independently inspected.
Gambia coin date conflicts with the indexed central-bank account.
Institutional liquidation is not currency termination.
The 1922 transition in Tanganyika absorbed German East African rupee circulation into the existing East African shilling system. Admit qualified regional succession; the exact all-contract conversion clause remains uninspected. This is not the founding of the shilling.
Indian, German, and Italian Rupees; Rupees and Hellers n.8; Currency Policies nn.16–17; Our Special East African Province nn.50–56
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Tanganyika-specific all-contract conversion clause not independently inspected.