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5 Kwacha Battle of Teutoburg Forest, Arminius
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Malawi |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Currency | Kwacha (1971-date) |
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| Reverse lettering | 2000 JAHRE VARUSSCHLACHT ARMINIUS FÜRST DER CHERUSKER 9 A.D. - 2009 A.D. |
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| Mintage | 2009 - - 5,000 |
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Arminius, a Cherusci chieftain who had served as an auxiliary officer in the Roman army, used that training against his former employers in 9 AD, destroying three legions — the XVII, XVIII, and XIX — in the Teutoburg Forest. Rome never reconstituted those legion numbers. The Germanic tribes never fell to Roman annexation east of the Rhine.
Malawi's connection to this event is purely commercial. By 2009 the Reserve Bank was issuing numismatic pieces tied to ancient European history specifically for the collector export market, with no domestic monetary function whatsoever.