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10 Kwacha
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Malawi |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Value | 10 Kwacha |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette, captioned 'Girls in Education', presents an intaglio scene of four children seated beneath a large tree in an open landscape, engaged in reading books. To the right, a light peach panel carries the Reserve Bank of Malawi seal at upper centre, a line-art fish vignette at mid-right, and a decorative fish-shaped logo bearing the initials 'RBM' at lower right; the denomination numeral K10 appears in brown at upper right and TEN KWACHA is printed vertically along the right margin. A guilloche-patterned band at the base bears the K10 numeral and the full issuer inscription. |
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| Protection description | John Chilembwe portrait; embedded security thread |
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| Comments |
The P#51 series sits within Malawi's post-2003 currency revision, which standardized denominations following years of inflation that had eroded the kwacha's purchasing power significantly. De La Rue's involvement was continuous throughout this period — the firm had been the dominant printer for Malawi since independence, giving the series a consistency of production quality across decades that few African central banks managed to maintain with a single supplier.
Security thread and watermark only — no foil, no color-shifting ink. Modest even by 2004 regional standards.