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10 Emalangeni
| Issuer | Central Bank of Eswatini |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Value | 10 Emalangeni |
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| Obverse description | At centre-right, a portrait of King Mswati III faces forward against a multicolour guilloche underprint; to the left, the national coat of arms with a lion and elephant as supporters flanking a central shield topped with a lidlabe (crown of feathers), accompanied by an isihlangu (shield), sikhali (spears), and umgobo (staff). English and Swazi inscriptions appear alongside the denomination, which also serves as a see-through registration device. |
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| Protection description | Portrait of King Mswati III; green windowed security thread with demetallized numeral 10 and CBE lettering |
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| Comments |
P#A44 marks Eswatini's first hybrid substrate issue, a significant materials shift for a central bank that had issued on conventional cotton-linen stock since the country's rename from Swaziland in 2018. Hybrid polymer-paper composites were adopted by several smaller African issuers through the early 2020s as a durability compromise — longer-lived than pure paper without the full retooling costs of an all-polymer series. Giesecke+Devrient, who have supplied Eswatini since the early Lilangeni series, handled production in Leipzig.
The security package is relatively restrained for a 2024 issue — watermark and thread only, without the windowed foil elements now common at this denomination tier.