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| Issuer | Zimbabwe › Zimbabwe (1980-date) |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Weight | 4.1 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | SHILLING 1 UNITY · FREEDOM · WORK 2018 REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE |
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Zimbabwe's 2018 novelty coinage series — which placed Soviet-designed fighter aircraft on a shilling denomination the country had no practical monetary use for — was issued during a period when Zimbabwe had effectively abandoned its own currency entirely, running on a multi-currency basket dominated by the US dollar following the catastrophic hyperinflation that peaked in 2008–2009. The MiG-35, developed by Mikoyan in the 1990s as a fourth-generation-plus evolution of the MiG-29, had no particular connection to Zimbabwe's air force, which operated Chinese and Soviet-era types under very different procurement histories.
These pieces circulated nowhere.