Catalog
10 Kwacha
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Malawi |
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| Year | 1976-1985 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | K10 Reserve Bank of Malaŵi K10 K10 New Capital Lilongwe Ten Kwacha |
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| Variants | P#16a - 31.01.1976 P#16b - 01.07.1978 P#16c - 30.06.1979 P#16d - 01.01.1981 P#16e - 01.01.1983 P#16f - 01.04.1984 P#16g - 01.11.1984 P#16h - 01.08.1985 |
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The Reserve Bank of Malawi was established in 1964, the year of independence, but Malawi didn't introduce its own currency until 1971 — the kwacha replacing the Malawian pound at a rate of two kwacha to one pound. This note belongs to the series that carried the institution through its first decade of genuine monetary autonomy, a period when Thomas De La Rue supplied virtually every new African central bank that needed a credible printing house and didn't have one of its own.
The P#16 series ran across nearly a decade of issue dates, which means condition and specific date within that window matter considerably to value. Earlier dates in the run are generally scarcer.