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5 Kwacha Wildlife of Africa
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Malawi |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Weight | 1.24 g |
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| Reverse description | A large African elephant (Loxodonta africana) is depicted in full frontal view, advancing toward the viewer with ears spread wide and tusks prominent, rendered in high relief. The savannah landscape is evoked by scattered rocks, tufts of grass, and a solitary acacia tree in the right field. The curved legend WILDLIFE OF AFRICA arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 5 KWACHA is inscribed in the lower field beneath the elephant. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Malawi's late-1990s and early-2000s gold miniature series was produced primarily for the collector export market, with pieces like this one struck in fractional weights designed to hit accessible price points rather than serve any domestic monetary function. The Reserve Bank licensed the Wildlife of Africa theme across multiple issuing nations simultaneously — Malawi, Zambia, and others — making cross-border comparisons of mintage figures and die origins genuinely complicated for researchers.
KM#116 is among the smaller-circulation issues in this run. Exact mintage figures have never been reliably published by the Reserve Bank.