Eswatini's 2018 coinage series marked the country's formal name change from Swaziland, enacted by Mswati III in April of that year to coincide with the 50th anniversary of independence. The renaming was unilateral — no referendum, no legislative process — and the new coins arrived as one of the most tangible everyday signals that the change was real.
Eswatini's 2018 coinage series marked the country's formal name change from Swaziland, enacted by Mswati III in April of that year to coincide with the 50th anniversary of independence. The renaming was unilateral — no referendum, no legislative process — and the new coins arrived as one of the most tangible everyday signals that the change was real.