Catalog
20 Emalangeni
| Issuer | Central Bank of Eswatini |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Currency | Lilangeni (1974-date) |
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| Obverse description | A forward-facing portrait vignette of King Mswati III is positioned at centre-right against a multicolour guilloche underprint. To the left, the national coat of arms presents a lion and elephant flanking an Nguni shield (isihlangu) surmounted by the traditional lidlabe feather crown, with sikhali spears and an umgobo staff. Bilingual Swazi and English inscriptions are distributed across the face, with the denomination rendered as a see-through registration device and the date 1.4.2024 at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | A multicolour guilloche underprint frames a composition of national agricultural and industrial motifs: a flower, ears of corn, and a pineapple occupy the left field, while a steer appears at centre and a refinery vignette is placed to the right. The Central Bank of Eswatini seal accompanies the denomination rendered as a see-through registration device, and a gold windowed security thread with demetallized numeral 20 and the initials CBE runs vertically through the note. |
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Giesecke+Devrient's hybrid substrate — a paper-polymer composite — was adopted by a number of smaller central banks in the 2020s as a cost-performance compromise between traditional cotton-linen paper and full polymer. It offers improved durability over paper without the full tooling costs of a dedicated polymer run. Eswatini's move to this format for the 2024 series reflects a broader modernization push by a central bank that had previously relied on conventional substrates for decades.
P#B44 designation places this firmly in the new series, distinct from earlier Swazi issues printed under the kingdom's pre-2018 name. The see-through registration feature requires precise front-to-back alignment at press — a small but telling indicator of print quality commitment on a note from a nation of under 1.2 million people.