A complicated issue! Long story! ... seigniorage ...Libertarianism... 1986-2011... color and size variations... forgeries accepted as currency! Suggest Wikipedia for... Balweyn Somalia... Somaliland... Somali Shilling With pictures of banknotes!: http://everything.explained.today/Somali_shilling/ which has "Reference" to text that is not a repetition of Wiki et alia: http://pjsymes.com.au/articles/somalia(part3).htm
I picked up as many different Somali shillings as I could when I was there. I have a stack of about one hundred Somali 1000 shillings. I am pretty sure 99% of them are counterfeit. Here are some examples of the different banknotes I picked up.
The economists (Friedman and Hayek) debate: https://www.mises.org/library/competing-currencies-somalia "...In 1997, a south Mogadishu leader issued the Balweyn I note, which is a forgery of the pre-1991 central bank note. Similarly, a Puntland administration (central bank) issued the Balweyn II, another forgery of the pre-1991 Somali Shilling (SoSh). Both notes are widely accepted forgeries and continue to be issued..."
Information is provided here that makes some distinctions among the Somali and Somoliland notes. ...and in part4. Peter Symes completed the article in 2005 http://pjsymes.com.au/articles/somalia(part3).htm
