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5 Lisente - Letsie III
| Issuer | Central Bank of Lesotho |
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| Year | 1998-2006 |
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| Weight | 1.64 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | KINGDOM OF LESOTHO KHOTSO PULA NALA 1998 |
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Lesotho's coinage was interrupted entirely during the military rule of the early 1990s, and the return to constitutional monarchy under Letsie III in 1996 — after a politically turbulent sequence involving his father Moshoeshoe II's forced abdication, Letsie's own brief reign, and Moshoeshoe's restoration before his death — meant the Central Bank was effectively rebuilding a national currency identity from scratch. This series was among the first issued under Letsie's permanent reign.
The brass-plated steel composition replaced earlier bronze pieces, a cost-driven shift common across southern African small denominations in the late 1990s.