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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.