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The article appears to be from 2017; does anyone have experience of what has happened since? Were the new shillings actually issued? Are they used?


Shillings aren’t used anymore and the new shillings were destroyed in the Sudanese civil war when the warehouse they were in went on fire.

https://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2021/Mar/182037/somali_currenc...

Nowadays people pay each other using cell-phone minutes, for example if I buy an orange for .4 (40 cents) I will send that amount via a message.


Reminds me of Discworld quickly using stamps as printed currency because they’re obviously negotiable.




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