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10 Kwacha
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Malawi |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| Value | 10 Kwacha (10 MWK) |
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| Obverse lettering | THE RESERVE BANK OF MALAWI PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND THE SUM OF TEN KWACHA ISSUED UNDER THE RESERVE BANK OF MALAWI ACT. 1964 |
| Reverse description | A panoramic intaglio vignette occupies the full width of the note, illustrating a tea-harvesting scene with a female worker in the foreground carrying a large woven basket on her back, picking from rows of tea bushes, and a second figure visible at right; a dramatic mountain range rises in the background under an open sky. The design is executed in a uniform steel-blue palette with fine line engraving throughout. |
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Malawi's early kwacha issues came from a currency redesign forced by the 1971 decimalization of the Malawian pound — the kwacha had technically existed since 1971, giving Hastings Banda's government a clean break from the colonial monetary system inherited at independence in 1964. Bradbury Wilkinson, long the dominant printer for British colonial and post-colonial territories, handled the first kwacha series almost as a matter of institutional habit.
Pick 8 is notably scarce in used grades, suggesting limited actual release into everyday commerce — the 10 Kwacha denomination was substantial against average wages of the period.