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Tanzanian shilling: research record

Evidence coverage: 1966–1966. 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

Tanzanian shilling

TZS · 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; 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.

Tanzanian shillingFTM000655 · C466, C467, C468, C469, C470, C471
Monetary history 2 events

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

14 June 1966Issuer operations begin

The Bank of Tanzania dates the beginning of its operations to 14 June 1966.

C470
14 June 1966; specialist catalogue, original notice pendingFirst note issue catalogued

The specialist Banknote Book catalogue dates introduction of the first 5-, 10-, 20- and 100-shilling issues to 14 June 1966.

C471
Evidence & research notes 7 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C466

Tanzania’s original Bank Act applies to both Tanganyika and Zanzibar and establishes the shilling divided into 100 cents.

United Republic of Tanzania · Bank of Tanzania Act, 1965, No.12 of 1966 Citation S211 · Open source ↗

ss.2 and 24

Source access and limitations

Short title says 1965; enactment is No.12 of 1966.

Commencement proclamation and actual territorial withdrawal notices not inspected.

Supported C467

For the transition provisions, one East African shilling equals one Tanzanian shilling.

United Republic of Tanzania · Bank of Tanzania Act, 1965, No.12 of 1966 Citation S211 · Open source ↗

s.36

Source access and limitations

Short title says 1965; enactment is No.12 of 1966.

Commencement proclamation and actual territorial withdrawal notices not inspected.

Supported C468

Former regional notes/coins remain tender until proclamation; free exchange on demand applies while they remain tender, with later exchange periods separately authorisable.

United Republic of Tanzania · Bank of Tanzania Act, 1965, No.12 of 1966 Citation S211 · Open source ↗

ss.33–34

Source access and limitations

Short title says 1965; enactment is No.12 of 1966.

Commencement proclamation and actual territorial withdrawal notices not inspected.

Supported C469

Covered laws and instruments referencing East African shillings, cents or the twenty-shilling pound are converted under the new Act.

United Republic of Tanzania · Bank of Tanzania Act, 1965, No.12 of 1966 Citation S211 · Open source ↗

s.35

Source access and limitations

Short title says 1965; enactment is No.12 of 1966.

Commencement proclamation and actual territorial withdrawal notices not inspected.

Supported C470

The Bank of Tanzania dates the beginning of its operations to 14 June 1966.

Bank of Tanzania · History of the Bank of Tanzania Citation S212 · Open source ↗

opening historical account; institution, not by itself cash launch

Source access and limitations

Bank opening does not by itself prove the first public cash-issue date.

Broad earlier monetary narrative not adopted wholesale.

Supported C471

The specialist Banknote Book catalogue dates introduction of the first 5-, 10-, 20- and 100-shilling issues to 14 June 1966.

BanknoteNews / The Banknote Book; copy hosted by Bank of Tanzania · The Banknote Book: Tanzania, 6 September 2011 edition Citation S217 · Open source ↗

catalogue entries BOT B1–B4, PDF pp.3–4; issuer-hosted secondary evidence

Source access and limitations

Host does not change authorship.

Exact 14 June 1966 first-issue date is catalogue evidence pending original issuer notice.

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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