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On 14 September 1966, the Kenyan shilling replaced the East African shilling at par, although the latter was not demonetised until 1969. The Central Bank of Kenya issued notes in denominations of 5/=, 10/=, 20/=, 50/= and 100/=. All of the notes feature a portrait of Kenya's first prime minister and president, Jomo Kenyatta, on the front and ...
During colonial times (roughly from 1680 to 1990) the respective colonial powers introduced their own currencies to their colonies or produced local versions of their currencies. These included the Somali shilling; the Italian East African lira; and the African franc (in Francophone countries). Many post-colonial governments have retained the ...
The exchange rate of the Kenyan Shilling between 2003 and 2010 averaged about KSh74-78 per US Dollar. [67] The average inflation between 2005 and July 2015 was 8.5%. [68] In July 2015 Kenya's inflation rate was estimated to be 6.62%. [69]
A 1933 UK shilling 1956 Elizabeth II UK shilling showing English and Scottish reverses. The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 12 pence or one-twentieth of a pound before being phased out during the 1960s ...
Shilingi is the Swahili word for "shilling". Specifically it may refer to: East African shilling (Swahili: Shilingi ya Afrika Mashariki), the former currency of the British colonies and protectorates in East Africa; Kenyan shilling (Swahili: Shilingi ya Kenya), the currency of Kenya
shilling Tanzanian shilling: KSh: shilling Kenyan shilling: Sh.So. shilling Somali shilling [24] USh: shilling Ugandan shilling: S/ sol Peruvian sol ⃀ сом som: som Kyrgyzstani som: Kyrgyz National Bank approved the underlined С (Cyrillic Es) as currency symbol (2017) [25] U+20C0 ⃀ SOM SIGN ৳ Tk: taka Bangladeshi Taka
Kenyan shilling; Lesotho loti (as sente) Liberian dollar; Lithuanian litas (as centas) Macanese pataca (as avo), but all circulating coins are in multiples of 10 avos. Malaysian ringgit (as sen), but all circulating coins are in multiples of 5 sen. Mauritian rupee; Mexican peso (as centavo) Moroccan dirham (as santim) Namibian dollar ...
The East African shilling was the sterling unit of account in British-controlled areas of East Africa from 1921 until 1969. [2] It was issued by the East African Currency Board. It is also the proposed name for a common currency that the East African Community plans to introduce. The shilling was divided into 100 cents, and twenty shillings ...