10 Dollars Zimbabwe Ruins

Zimbabwe's archaeological ruins — the dry-stone enclosures built by the ancestors of the Shona people between roughly the 11th and 15th centuries — gave the country its name at independence in 1980, making them a politically significant choice for commemorative coinage. This 1996 issue appeared during a period of relative economic stability before the hyperinflationary collapse that would eventually render Zimbabwean currency worthless and force the Reserve Bank to abandon the dollar entirely in 2009.