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5 Kwacha Likoma Island
| Issuer | Malawi |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Value | 5 Kwacha 5 MWK = USD 0.0029 |
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| Obverse lettering | LIKOMA ISLAND UNITY AND FREEDOM 2007 |
| Reverse description | Central device portrays a large male kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) standing in profile facing left, rendered in fine relief with its distinctive long spiral horns prominently displayed. The legend ENDANGERED WILDLIFE arcs along the upper periphery of the coin. The denomination 5 KWACHA is inscribed in the lower exergual area, separated from the central device by the flat field. |
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Likoma Island sits within Lake Malawi entirely surrounded by Mozambican waters — a geographic anomaly dating to the 1890s when the Universities' Mission to Central Africa established a cathedral there, giving Britain enough administrative foothold to claim the island despite drawing the colonial boundary well to the west. Malawi retained it at independence in 1964. The island has no land border with Malawi whatsoever.
This non-circulating issue belongs to a broader run of Malawian novelty coinage from the mid-2000s targeting the collector market rather than domestic commerce.