Mozambique's 1994 coinage came just two years after the Rome General Peace Accords ended a civil war that had killed roughly one million people and displaced five million more. The Banco de Moçambique had been operating through nearly two decades of near-total economic collapse, and this brass-clad steel issue reflects the stripped-down monetary reconstruction that followed — a country rebuilding its currency infrastructure from almost nothing.
Mozambique's 1994 coinage came just two years after the Rome General Peace Accords ended a civil war that had killed roughly one million people and displaced five million more. The Banco de Moçambique had been operating through nearly two decades of near-total economic collapse, and this brass-clad steel issue reflects the stripped-down monetary reconstruction that followed — a country rebuilding its currency infrastructure from almost nothing.