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10 Cents
| Issuer | Malta |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Diameter | 22 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A naturalistically rendered common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus), known locally in Malta as lampuka, is depicted in profile occupying the majority of the reverse field. The denomination numeral and unit abbreviation appear to the left of the fish in a clean, sans-serif typeface. The design is minimalist, with no additional ornamentation or border devices beyond the milled edge. |
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Malta decimalized in 1972, replacing the pound-shilling-penny system inherited from British colonial rule with a new cent-based currency. The 10-cent piece became a workhorse denomination throughout the 1980s, seeing heavy circulation during a period when Malta was aggressively developing its tourism infrastructure and negotiating its complex non-aligned foreign policy under Dom Mintoff's Labour government — which had ended by 1986 but whose economic fingerprints remained.
KM#76 continued through several years of production with minimal variation between dates.