10 Kwacha

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.