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5 Kwacha
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Malawi |
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| Year | 1976-1984 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | RESERVE BANK OF MALAWI PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND THE SUM OF FIVE KWACHA ISSUED UNDER THE RESERVE BANK OF MALAWI ACT 1964 |
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| Variants | P#15a - 31.01.1976 P#15b - 01.07.1978 P#15c - 30.06.1979 P#15d - 01.01.1981 P#15e - 01.01.1983 P#15f - 01.11.1984 |
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The Reserve Bank of Malawi was established only in 1964, the same year the country gained independence from Britain, and the early note series were necessarily contracted out to De La Rue — Malawi had no domestic printing capacity. This P#15 series ran for nearly a decade, an unusually long issue lifespan that reflects both the relative monetary stability of the Banda administration and the limited appetite for expensive redesigns in a small, aid-dependent economy.
Tropical climate circulation takes a hard toll on cotton-fiber notes, and Malawian examples from this period frequently show accelerated paper degradation. Survivors in mid-to-upper grades are proportionally scarcer than the issue numbers alone would suggest.