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50 Cents
| Issuer | Bank of Namibia |
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| Year | 1993-2022 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1993-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | UNITY LIBERTY JUSTICE 1993 REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA |
| Reverse description | A tall quiver tree (Kokerboom, Aloe dichotoma) is depicted in right profile, its distinctive forked branches and succulent form rendered in fine relief at center. A partial stylized sun design appears to the left in the field, its rays partially visible at the edge. The denomination 50 c is inscribed in the lower field beneath the tree. The overall design is clean and uncluttered, emphasizing the quiver tree as a national symbol of Namibia. |
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Namibia's coinage dates only to 1993, the year the country introduced the Namibian dollar following independence from South African administration in 1990. The three-year gap was deliberate — the new government continued using the South African rand while the Bank of Namibia established the infrastructure and legal framework for a sovereign currency. The dollar was pegged to the rand at par, a relationship that still holds.
KM#3 ran across nearly three decades with minimal design alteration, which is itself unusual for a young nation still negotiating its postcolonial identity through its material culture.