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10 Maloti - Moshoeshoe II Decade For Women
| Issuer | Central Bank of Lesotho |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#49, Schön#58 |
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| Reverse description | Central design depicts a traditionally dressed Basotho woman facing right, balancing a large round-bottomed water pitcher upon her head and carrying an infant swaddled on her back. To the left of the central figure appears the United Nations Decade for Women symbolic emblem incorporating the female gender sign and a dove. The circumferential legend 'UNITED NATIONS DECADE FOR WOMEN' arcs around the upper field, with the denomination 'TEN MALOTI' inscribed along the lower field, all within a beaded border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The UN Decade for Women (1976–1985) prompted a wave of commemorative issues from member states, most of them forgettable. Lesotho's entry is notable mostly for the political backdrop: Moshoeshoe II was by 1985 a largely ceremonial figure, having been stripped of executive authority following the 1966 independence constitution and intermittently forced into exile by Leabua Jonathan's government. The king's appearance on a women's rights commemorative issued under a government that had suspended his powers carries a quiet irony the catalog entry rarely acknowledges.