Malawi's wildlife coin program of the late 2000s and early 2010s routinely borrowed fauna with no geographic connection to the country — the Panamanian golden frog, Atelopus zeteki, is endemic to Panama and was almost certainly extinct in the wild by the time this coin was struck. A captive breeding crisis had been underway since the chytrid fungus outbreak devastated Central American amphibian populations through the mid-2000s, and the species' precarious status made it a marketable subject for the international commemorative coin trade regardless of any Malawian connection.
Malawi's wildlife coin program of the late 2000s and early 2010s routinely borrowed fauna with no geographic connection to the country — the Panamanian golden frog, Atelopus zeteki, is endemic to Panama and was almost certainly extinct in the wild by the time this coin was struck. A captive breeding crisis had been underway since the chytrid fungus outbreak devastated Central American amphibian populations through the mid-2000s, and the species' precarious status made it a marketable subject for the international commemorative coin trade regardless of any Malawian connection.