According to an article on DailyNews dated 1 March 2012, the Bank of Tanzania plans to replace 500-shilling notes (B139a) with coins because the latter lasts much longer in circulation. The article also contains new details on plans of the East African Community (www.eac.int)—Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda—to introduceRead More…
According to an artilce in The Citizen dated 10 March 2011, Bank of Tanzania has refuted rumors that it was withdrawing the new family of notes (B139a – B143a) that it had just introduced on 1 January. Apparently there have been widespread complaints that the new notes are of inferiorRead More…
An East African Business Week article dated 14 February 2011, contains interesting information on the continuing plans to form an East African Community Monetary Union similar to the European Union, wherein all the partner states will replace their individual currencies—the Burundian franc, Kenyan shilling, Rwandan franc, Tanzanian shilling, and UgandanRead More…
On 17 December 2010, the Bank of Tanzania announced it would introduce a new family of notes on 1 January 2011. The new notes are slightly smaller than the existing notes, which will continue to circulate in parallel. The new notes are protected by Motion windowed security threads, Spark patches,Read More…
Like B136a, but new signatures (Mkulo/Ndulu). Prefix CE – CP. Courtesy of Andrew Roberts.Read More…
According to an article in The Citizen dated 21 March 2009, the Bank of Tanzania confirmed that Sh34 million (US$26,000) in “calibrated” bills was stolen in transit from Germany to Dar es Salaam. Bank of Tanzania Governor Benno Ndulu refuted earlier media reports that the stolen money was a consignmentRead More…
According to an article in The Citizen dated 8 January 2009, “The Bank of Tanzania (BoT) plans a major change of the country’s currency notes…The central bank has in a notice published in the media last month, and also posted on its website, invited tenders for the printing of theRead More…
, Like B135a (above, left), but with portrait of President Julius K. Nyerere corrected to show the shirt button on the “masculine” side (above, right). Prefix BP – DU. Courtesy of Chris Twining.Read More…