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Kenyan shilling: research record

Evidence coverage: 1966–1967. 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.

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Currency continuity

Kenyan shilling

KES · Research draft
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Current currency in the inherited endpoint register.
Dated observations: 1966–1967; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

East African shillingnational issue succeeds regional currency · 1966 national transition; no shared regional termination date
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Children / successors

No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.

Siblings

Unit and issue records 1 records

Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.

Kenyan shillingFTM000654 · C472, C473, C474
Monetary history 3 events

Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.

1 July 1966; issue date not established by this passageNotes legalised before issue

CBK distinguishes Legal Notice 252 of 1 July 1966 from banknote issue: the notes were legalised but not yet issued on that date.

C472
10 April 1967First national coin issue

CBK dates first national shilling coins to 10 April 1967.

C473
1966-08-23Regional 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.

C620
Evidence & research notes 7 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C472

CBK distinguishes Legal Notice 252 of 1 July 1966 from banknote issue: the notes were legalised but not yet issued on that date.

Central Bank of Kenya · Currency History — national issue and regional currency withdrawal Citation S213 · Open source ↗

paragraph beginning With the establishment of individual Central Banks

Source access and limitations

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.

Supported C473

CBK dates first national shilling coins to 10 April 1967.

Central Bank of Kenya · Currency History — national issue and regional currency withdrawal Citation S213 · Open source ↗

paragraph beginning On April 10, 1967

Source access and limitations

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.

Supported C474

CBK reports regional banknotes losing tender in Kenya in September 1967 and regional coins in April 1969.

Central Bank of Kenya · Currency History — national issue and regional currency withdrawal Citation S213 · Open source ↗

national-currency transition paragraph; month precision

Source access and limitations

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.

Supported C618

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.

Republic of Kenya; Kenya Law · Central Bank of Kenya Act 1966, Act 15 — version at 3 June 1969 Citation S337 · Open source ↗

s.23, historical version at 3 June 1969

Source access and limitations

Consolidated historical text, not the as-made Gazette.

Section-specific original commencement notices and actual exchange-start/withdrawal notices remain uninspected.

Supported C619

Section 22(4) leaves former-board tender duration to ministerial determination; s.24 separately qualifies exchange of damaged currency.

Republic of Kenya; Kenya Law · Central Bank of Kenya Act 1966, Act 15 — version at 3 June 1969 Citation S337 · Open source ↗

ss.22(4) and 24

Source access and limitations

Consolidated historical text, not the as-made Gazette.

Section-specific original commencement notices and actual exchange-start/withdrawal notices remain uninspected.

Supported C620

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.

Kenya Minister for Finance; Kenya Law · Legal Tender of East African Shillings — Legal Notice 253 of 1966, original-date version Citation S338 · Open source ↗

Complete operative notice, printed p.1 / PDF p.3

Source access and limitations

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.

Inference C641

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.

Joseph Gold; International Monetary Fund · Membership and Nonmembership in the International Monetary Fund — chapter 4: Membership and Currency Citation S345 · Open source ↗

printed pp.115–116, national currency transition; indexed-only

Source access and limitations

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

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