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Year: 1930
Virgil Bi-Millenary: The Hearth and Pastoral Music
This dark brown semi-postal issue represents a high-value denomination in the 1930 series, bearing a face value of 5 lire paired with a 1.50-lire surcharge for charitable works. Modified for territorial use with a red "SOMALIA" overprint, the design shifts its thematic focus to Virgil's Bucolics (Eclogue VII). The vignette illustrates a rustic interior scene where a young shepherd sits near a roaring stone fireplace playing a traditional pipe (flauta), while his flock rests nearby. The lower tablet bears the text: "Hic focus et taedae pingues, hic plurimus ignis" ("Here is a hearth and rich torches, here is abundance of fire"), projecting an atmosphere of comfort, warmth, and pastoral artistic expression.
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5th Somalia Trade Fair- Port of Mogadishu
5th Somalia Trade Fair- Loading Frankincense in the Land of Punt
5th Somalia Trade Fair- Incense Burner / Girgire
5th Somalia Trade Fair- Frankincense Tree / Boswellia carteri
Great Egret (Casmerodius albus / Ardea alba)
Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer / Leptoptilos crumeniferus)
Pink-backed Pelican (Pelecanus rufescens)
African Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus)
Saddle-billed Stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis)
White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)
Constituent Assembly (Assemblea Costituente, 1959) - 1.5 somalo
Constituent Assembly (Assemblea Costituente, 1959) - 1.2 somalo
Constituent Assembly (Assemblea Costituente, 1959) - 0.25 somalo
Constituent Assembly (Assemblea Costituente, 1959) - 0.05 somalo
Delonix elata (Poinciana elata)
Crinum scabrum
Hirola / Hunter's Hartebeest (Beatragus hunteri / Damaliscus hunteri)
Gerenuk (Litocranius walleri)
Lesser Kudu (Strepsiceros imberbis / Tragelaphus imberbis)
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