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1 Shilling MIG-21 Fishbed
| Issuer | Zimbabwe › Zimbabwe (1980-date) |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 1 Shilling |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicts a full-color illustration of a Soviet MiG-21 Fishbed supersonic jet fighter aircraft shown in three-quarter view, bearing the number '66' on its fuselage and red star markings. The background is rendered in blue tones evoking sky. The legend 'SOVIET UNION FIGHTER' is arched along the upper rim, with 'MiG-21 Fishbed' inscribed in the upper central field. The service date range '1959-1985' appears in the lower central field, and the inscription 'THE BEST MILITARY AIRCRAFTS' curves along the lower rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | SOVIET UNION FIGHTER MIG-21 Fishbed 1959-1985 THE BEST MILITARY AIRCRAFTS |
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Zimbabwe's post-Mugabe currency situation was chaotic enough that by 2017 the country was issuing "bond coins" — nominally pegged 1:1 to the US dollar but accepted by almost no one outside the country's own internal transactions. This shilling falls into that murky category of instruments designed more to paper over a liquidity crisis than to function as conventional coinage. The MIG-21 subject references Zimbabwe Air Force service history; the type entered Zimbabwean service in the 1980s via a Chinese transfer of J-7 variants, the domestically produced MIG-21 derivative Beijing supplied to allied states.