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10 Dollars Independence
| Issuer | Namibia (1990-date) |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | PROBE ESSAI 10 DOLLARS |
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Namibia's independence on March 21, 1990 ended over a century of colonial administration — first German, then South African under a League of Nations mandate that Pretoria effectively converted into annexation. The South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) had fought a 23-year armed struggle before a UN-supervised election in November 1989 delivered the mandate for independence. Sam Nujoma was sworn in as the first president the same day the country's name changed.
The X# prefix in Krause places this issue outside the regular series — likely a pattern or essai struck for the occasion rather than a circulation issue. First-day sovereign coinages of newly independent states frequently exist in ambiguous minting status.