1 Shilling MIG-21 Fishbed

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.