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1 Lilangeni - Mswati III
| Issuer | Central Bank of Eswatini |
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| Year | 2018-2021 |
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| Currency | Lilangeni (1974-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | ESWATINI 2018 |
| Reverse description | Facing bust of the Queen Mother Ntombi Tfwala, rendered in traditional royal attire with an elaborate beaded headdress and decorative necklace, centrally positioned in the field. To the left of the effigy appears the large numeral 1 denoting the denomination. The legend 1 LILANGENI and the date 2018 arc along the lower periphery in Latin script. |
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Mswati III ascended the throne in 1986 at age 18, making him one of the youngest ruling monarchs in the world at the time. Eswatini — the country's name since the 2018 royal decree that formally retired "Swaziland" — is one of the last absolute monarchies on the African continent, and the coinage reflects that directly: no elected government, no parliamentary authority stands behind these issues, only the king.
KM#72 replaced the earlier bimetallic lilangeni that had circulated since the 1990s.