TSh100 — One Hundred Shillings
The artwork
Front: Julius Nyerere, founding president, in three-quarter profile at the right within a finely engraved oval. At the top centre sits the national arms with the Kilimanjaro shield and the motto Uhuru na Umoja, flanked by a fanned spread of colour. To the left, the Uhuru torch burns against sisal and palm fronds. Swahili throughout: Benki Kuu ya Tanzania, Shilingi Mia Moja, and the legal-tender line beneath.
Back: A graduation procession at the University of Dar es Salaam: masters and graduands in caps and gowns file past the campus buildings, with the barrel-vaulted arcades and the round assembly hall behind them and young trees on the slope below. The outline of mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar rises behind the crowd in dark engraving, with the Uhuru torch echoed faintly at the right in orange and green.
In circulation
An undated issue of the mid-1980s, circulating alongside the 20 and 50 shilingi of the same family until the redesigned notes of the early 1990s took over. As inflation ate into small denominations, the hundred passed to coin and the note was retired from everyday use.
Details
- IssuerBenki Kuu ya Tanzania (Bank of Tanzania)
- CurrencyShilling (TSh)
- DenominationOne Hundred Shillings
- Collectedon the Tanzania journey, 1992
- Series100 Shilingi, undated issue, portrait of Julius Nyerere
- SignatureTwo: Waziri wa Fedha (Minister of Finance) and Gavana (Governor)
- SecuritySerial number JY 723460, printed twice in black; intaglio portrait and lathework