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5 Lisente - Moshoeshoe II
| Issuer | Central Bank of Lesotho |
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| Year | 1979-1989 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#18 |
| Obverse description | Uniformed effigy of King Moshoeshoe II facing slightly left, depicted in military dress with epaulettes, peaked cap, and spectacles. The portrait is rendered in fine relief against a plain field, conveying a formal regal character. The circular legend reads KINGDOM OF LESOTHO at the top and H.M. MOSHOESHOE II at the bottom, with the date 1979 to the right. A beaded border runs along the inner rim. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Lesotho's first decimal coinage series launched in 1979, when the country replaced the South African rand-pegged loti system with its own independently denominated currency following the Lesotho Monetary Authority's conversion into the Central Bank of Lesotho. The timing was politically deliberate — asserting financial separation from Pretoria during a period of acute tension between the two countries, rooted in Lesotho's refusal to recognize the Transkei and other nominally independent bantustans.
Moshoeshoe II had been deposed and restored once already by 1979, and would be forced into exile again in 1990 by Leabua Jonathan's successor regime. KM#18 spans the most turbulent decade of his reign.