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50 Kwacha Springbok
| Issuer | Malawi |
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| Year | 2008 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The coat of arms of the Republic of Malawi displayed centrally in the field, featuring a shield supported by a lion rampant to the left and a leopard rampant to the right, with a rising sun at the base of the shield and an eagle displayed above. A ribbon in the exergue bears the national motto 'UNITY AND FREEDOM'. The legend 'REPUBLIC OF MALAWI' arcs along the upper periphery, and the denomination '50 KWACHA' is inscribed along the lower periphery. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF MALAWI UNITY AND FREEDOM 50 KWACHA |
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Malawi's wildlife-themed commemorative program of the mid-2000s was openly a revenue exercise, produced for the international collector market rather than domestic circulation. This piece was never intended to cross a Malawian till. The springbok — an animal native to southern Africa but absent from Malawi entirely — signals as much.
The bi-material construction, silver-plated copper-nickel carrier with a .925 gilded silver insert, was a format popularized by the Czech Mint and B.H. Mayer during this period for small-nation licensing arrangements.