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10 Cents - Mswati III 2nd portrait
| Issuer | Central Bank of Swaziland |
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| Year | 1995-2009 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Swaziland's coinage underwent a quiet reset in the early 1990s when a second portrait of Mswati III replaced the first — the king had assumed the throne in 1986 at age eighteen, and the initial effigy, struck when he was barely out of adolescence, was considered insufficiently authoritative for a maturing monarch. The long production window stretching to 2009 reflects the Central Bank's conservative minting policy: issues were ordered infrequently and in modest quantities, with several years in the span leaving no confirmed struck examples at all.