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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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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | SWAZILAND |
| Reverse description | A stylised sugar cane plant rendered in high relief dominates the central field, its broad arching leaves spreading across the scalloped flan. The denomination numeral 10 appears to the upper left, with a circular device integrated into the design above the plant. The inscription CENTS curves along the lower left periphery, while the date appears along the lower right, all in raised Latin lettering. |
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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.