Catalog
10 Kwacha Les Jumelles
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Malawi |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Currency | Kwacha (1971-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a coloured inset in the centre of the mirror-proof field, reproducing a Swiss Helvetia postage stamp of 60 centimes denomination, depicting the twin mountain peaks known as Les Jumelles in the Swiss Alps, with a glacial lake, coniferous forest, and green slopes rendered in polychrome enamel. The stamp is framed within a rectangular border with simulated perforations, set against the dark reflective field. The legend FAMOUS PLACES OF THE WORLD arcs along the upper periphery, separated by a beaded inner border, while LES JUMELLES is inscribed in relief along the lower border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Les Jumelles — "The Twins" — refers to the Bamucapi movement that swept through central and southern Africa in the 1930s, though Malawi's commemorative coinage program from this period more often drew on wildlife and cultural themes for foreign collector markets. Without confirmed documentation on what specifically this issue commemorates, the KM# 76 attribution places it firmly within Malawi's early 2000s silver bullion-adjacent collector series, struck to the standard 28.28g/.925 specification common to Commonwealth-affiliated proof programs of that decade.