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10 Kwacha Malagasy Rainbow
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Malawi |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Weight | 29.5 g |
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| Obverse description | The obverse displays the arms of Malawi in high relief at center, featuring a quartered shield supported by a lion rampant to the left and a leopard to the right, with a rising sun in base and a fish eagle displayed above the crest. The national motto UNITY AND FREEDOM appears on a scroll beneath the supporters. The legend REPUBLIC OF MALAWI arcs along the upper periphery, flanked by the split date 20-10, while the denomination 10 KWACHA is inscribed along the lower periphery. The design is struck against a deeply mirrored proof field. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF MALAWI 20 10 UNITY AND FREEDOM 10 KWACHA |
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The "Malagasy Rainbow" designation points to this being part of Malawi's expansive series of thematic collector issues produced in the late 2000s and early 2010s — a period when the Reserve Bank licensed its coinage authority to produce large volumes of novelty pieces aimed squarely at the international souvenir market rather than domestic circulation. Malawi's actual currency needs were met entirely by its standard kwacha notes and base-metal coinage; these silver-plated issues never entered the Malawian economy in any meaningful sense.
KM# 110 sits in a catalog swollen with similar issues from this era, many sharing the same planchet specifications across wildly different themes.