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1 Cent - Mswati III 1st portrait
| Issuer | Central Bank of Swaziland |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Facing effigy of King Mswati III as a young man, depicted in traditional Swazi royal attire including a decorative headdress adorned with feathers and ornamental pins. The portrait occupies the central field, rendered in fine relief with naturalistic detail. The legend SWAZILAND arcs along the lower periphery in incuse Latin lettering. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Mswati III ascended to the Swazi throne in April 1986 at age eighteen, making him one of the youngest reigning monarchs in the world at the time. This issue was struck the same year of his coronation, establishing the first official portrait coinage of his reign — a portrait that would later be replaced as the king aged. The Central Bank introduced the "a" variant in bronze as a cost-reduction measure from the earlier coinage, a quiet administrative decision that most collectors overlook entirely.