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Kenya banknotes
Kenya paper money catalog and Kenyan currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Indian currency, till 1905
  • British East Africa Rupee = (Indian Rupee) = 100 Cents, till 1920
  • British East Africa Florin = (Rupee) = 100 Cents, 1920-1921
  • British East Africa Shilling = (1/2 Florin) = 100 Cents, 1921-1966
  • Kenya Shilling = (East Africa Shilling) = 100 Cents, from 1966

• For earlier issues see:
  • East Africa, British Colony till 1963

• To purchase Kenyan banknotes, please check our inventory :
  World banknotes countries A-Z

Pick #	Date
		Republic (British Colony till 1963; East Africa)
1-5	1966-68	5, 10, 20, 50, 100 shillings
6-10	1969-73	5, 10, 20, 50, 100 shillings
11-14	1974-77	5, 10, 20, 100 shillings
15-18	1978	5, 10, 20, 100 shillings
19-23A	1980-88	5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 shillings
24-30	1988-95	10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 shillings
31	1993-94	20 shillings
32-34	1994-95	20, 500, 1.000 shillings
35-40	1996-2002	20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1.000 shillings
41-45	2003-5	50, 100, 200, 500, 1.000 shillings
46	2003	200 shillings, commemorative "40 years of Independence"
47-51	2003-10	50, 100, 200, 500, 1.000 shillings
52-	2019	50, 100, 200, 500, 1.000 shillings