10 Cents

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.