10 Meticais

Issued three years after Mozambique's first multiparty constitution came into force, this coin belongs to a transitional period when the country was still formally at war — the Rome General Peace Accords ending the RENAMO conflict were signed in October 1992, and demobilization was still underway through 1994. The Banco de Moçambique introduced brass-clad steel coinage in this period partly as a cost-control measure, the metical having suffered severe inflationary pressure throughout the 1980s civil war economy.