KSh10 — Ten Shillings
The artwork
Front: Daniel Toroitich arap Moi, named and titled beneath his portrait as President of the Republic of Kenya, in a pinstriped suit with a rose in the buttonhole — the flower repeated as engraved blooms down the left edge. Centre, the Kenyan arms: two lions holding spears either side of a Maasai shield, over the motto HARAMBEE. Bilingual headings, BANKI KUU YA KENYA above CENTRAL BANK OF KENYA, and SHILINGI KUMI along the foot.
Back: A crescent-shaped college building with a colonnaded portico, students crossing the forecourt, and two graduates in cap and gown at the right beside an unrolled diploma. Behind rise the snow-streaked peaks of Mount Kenya, printed in soft mauve and blue. A large rosette guilloche sits under TEN SHILLINGS, with a key motif in the right margin.
In circulation
Part of the Moi portrait series dated by year on each printing; this one bears 2nd January 1992. Ten-shilling notes were retired in the mid-1990s when a circulating ten-shilling coin took over the value, and the whole Moi design was superseded by the 1996 series before Kenya moved to non-portrait notes in 2019.
Details
- IssuerBanki Kuu ya Kenya — Central Bank of Kenya
- CurrencyShilling (KSh)
- DenominationTen Shillings
- Collectedon the Kenya journey, 1992
- SeriesMoi portrait issue, dated 2nd January 1992
- SignatureTwo signatures for the Board of Directors — Governor and Member
- WatermarkLion's head
- SecuritySerial AV5537804 twice — vertical in red at left, horizontal in black at right