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10 Kwacha Madagascar Fish Eagle

Issuer Reserve Bank of Malawi
Year 2010
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Currency Kwacha (1971-date)
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Obverse lettering REPUBLIC OF MALAWI 20 10 UNITY AND FREEDOM 10 KWACHA
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Reverse lettering BIRDS OF PREY MADAGASCAR FISH EAGLE
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Malawi's wildlife-themed legal tender issues from this period were produced almost entirely for the collector export market — they saw no meaningful domestic circulation and were sold predominantly through European and North American distributors. The Reserve Bank authorized a broad series of these large-format silver-plated pieces throughout the 2000s and into the 2010s, many featuring fauna with no particular connection to Malawi itself. The Madagascar Fish Eagle, endemic to Madagascar and not found in Malawi, is a straightforward example of that pattern.

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