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Somali shilling: research record

Evidence coverage: 1961–1962. 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

Somali shilling

SOS · 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: 1961–1962; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

East African shillingterritorial currency replacement · 1961 · later absorption or contribution
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Children / successors

No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.

Unit and issue records 1 records

Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.

Somali Shilling — endpoint research dossierFTM000694 · C520

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Historical account research

Covered somalo and EAS monetary obligations payable in republic and books of account converted into Somali shillings.

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Modern account-unit review

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.

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Account-unit observations

Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.

1961supported

Covered somalo and EAS monetary obligations payable in republic and books of account converted into Somali shillings.

C1501
Monetary history 1 events

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

1962: first banknotesBanknote issue

The issuer distinguishes a 1961 northern currency-unification decree from first Somali-shilling banknotes in 1962.

C520
Evidence & research notes 4 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C520

The issuer distinguishes a 1961 northern currency-unification decree from first Somali-shilling banknotes in 1962.

Central Bank of Somalia · History of the Central Bank of Somalia Citation S255 · Open source ↗

Post-independence notable milestones

Supported C1143

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.

Central Bank of Somalia · History of the Central Bank of Somalia Citation S255 · Open source ↗

Post-independence notable milestones

Supported C1501

Covered somalo and EAS monetary obligations payable in republic and books of account converted into Somali shillings.

Somali Republic · Decreto-legge6marzo 1961, n.2, Ordinamento Monetario; Bollettino Ufficiale12marzo 1961, Supplement1No3 Citation S821 · Open source ↗

Arts10–11

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1640

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.

Somali Republic · Decreto-legge6marzo 1961, n.2, Ordinamento Monetario; Bollettino Ufficiale12marzo 1961, Supplement1No3 Citation S821 · Open source ↗

Arts8–11,printed pp5–6

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Somali Republic / Roma Tre archival edition · Law13 of23May 1961, conversion of Decree-law2 of6March 1961 Citation S822 · Open source ↗

Arts8–11,printed pp5–6

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Correct ratification number13; secondary history number3 is a transcription error.

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