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2 Tambala non-magnetic

Issuer Reserve Bank of Malawi
Year 1995
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Shape Round
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Obverse script Latin
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Edge Plain
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Malawi's tambala coinage of the 1990s reflects the country's chronic shortage of hard currency following the collapse of the one-party state under Hastings Banda in 1994. The transition to multiparty democracy coincided with IMF-imposed structural adjustments that constrained the Reserve Bank's minting budgets, leading to irregular production runs and compositional substitutions across the small-denomination series — the non-magnetic bronze designation distinguishing this piece from later steel-core issues struck as costs rose further.

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