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| Issuer | Bank of Namibia |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1998 - Proof - 2,750 |
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Namibia's coastal waters — the Benguela Current system running along the Atlantic shore — support one of the most productive marine ecosystems in the Southern Hemisphere, and the government leaned heavily on that identity when launching conservation-themed commemoratives in the 1990s. The Marine Life Protection series was part of a broader wave of wildlife coins targeting the international collector market, a revenue strategy Namibia pursued aggressively following independence from South African administration in 1990.
The KM#13 issue was struck for export rather than domestic circulation; few examples ever reached Namibian hands.