Somalialand - 500 Somalialand Shillings - P-6b - 1996 dated Foreign Paper Money

500 Shillings, 1996, P-6b, CU. The Somaliland shilling is the official currency of the Republic of Somaliland, an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognized internationally as de jure part of Somalia. The shilling has been the currency of parts of Somalia since 1921, when the East African shilling was introduced to the former British Somaliland protectorate. Following the 1960 independence and unification of the former territories of British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland, their respective currencies, the East African shilling and somalo (which were equal in value) were replaced at par in 1962 by the Somali shilling. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somaliland_shilling