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5 Emalangeni - Mswati III
| Issuer | Central Bank of Swaziland |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | SWAZILAND |
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Mswati III ascended to the Swazi throne in 1986 at age eighteen, making him one of the youngest ruling monarchs in the world at the time. By 2015, his government had faced sustained international criticism over the suppression of political parties — banned in Swaziland since 1973 under a decree by his father, Sobhuza II — and the concentration of royal financial control over national assets including the Tibiyo TakaNgwane fund, which operates outside parliamentary oversight.
KM#68 is part of a coinage series that saw relatively limited circulation pressure given Swaziland's small population and the informal economy's heavy reliance on South African rand alongside the lilangeni.