Obverse: Women seated weaving baskets
Reverse: Port of Mogadishu

Lettering: Bankiga Dhexe ee Soomaaliya 1000 Shilin Soomalli
Translation: Central Bank in Somalia 1000 Somali Shilling

Watermark: Bearded man in a headdress (turban) – Mohammed Abdullah Hassan or Sayyid Muhammad `Abd Allah al-Hasan (Sayid Maxamed Cabdulle Xassan). 1856 – 1920. Known by the British as the ‘Mad Mullah’.