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Tanzanian shilling
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currency of Tanzania
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- Commons category
- Money of Tanzania
- central bank/issuer
- Bank of Tanzania
- start time
- 1966-00-00
- unit symbol
- TSh
- replaces
- East African shilling
- price
- 0.00039612362
- conversion to standard unit
- 0.0013834435015508
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Encyclopedic overview
ISO 4217 CodeTZS (numeric: 834) Subunit0.01 Unit Unitshilling Pluralshillings Denominations Subunit 1⁄100cent Banknotes500/=, 1,000/=, 2,000/=, 5,000/=, 10,000/= Coins50/=, 100/=, 200/=, 500/= Demographics User(s) Tanzania Issuance Central bankBank of Tanzania WebsiteBank of Tanzania website Valuation Inflation5.6% SourceThe World Factbook, 2015 est.
The shilling (Swahili: shilingi; abbreviation: TSh; code: TZS) is the currency of Tanzania. It is subdivided into 100 cents (senti in Swahili). The Tanzanian shilling replaced the East African shilling on 14 June 1966 at par.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tanzanian shilling” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.