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20 Emalangeni King Mswati's 21st Birthday
| Issuer | Central Bank of Swaziland |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Reference(s) | P#17 |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a timber-laden truck travelling along a winding road through a plantation landscape, with a herd of cattle grazing in the foreground amid lush tropical vegetation including sugar cane, maize, and pineapple plants. The Central Bank of Swaziland title appears at top centre, flanked by the numeral 20 in each upper corner, with guilloche ornaments at the four corners. The denomination TWENTY EMALANGENI is inscribed in bold lettering at lower right. |
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| Protection description | King Mswati III portrait visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note |
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This note commemorates King Mswati III's 21st birthday in 1989, which carried specific constitutional weight: under Swazi law and custom, the king could not assume full sovereign powers until reaching that age, meaning the occasion was a formal legal threshold, not merely a ceremonial one. Mswati had ascended the throne in 1986 at eighteen following the regency period after Sobhuza II's death in 1982.
Oberthur's Rennes facility handled the printing, as it did for much of Swaziland's note production during this period. The B.S. Dlamini signature is that of Ben Sipho Dlamini, who served as Prime Minister — an unusual co-signatory arrangement reflecting the kingdom's institutional structure at the time.