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10 Kwanzas
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Angola |
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| Year | 2012 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The brass-plated steel centre features the large bold numeral '10' prominently displayed, with the '0' bearing fine horizontal reeding within its interior. The denomination 'kwanzas' is inscribed in lowercase lettering immediately below the numeral, centred across the inner disc. The nickel-plated steel ring surrounding the centre is decorated with a fine diamond-pattern guilloche texture, with the numeral '1' of the denomination extending into the ring area at left, creating a visually integrated bimetallic design. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 kwanzas |
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Angola's 2012 coinage series was issued as the country entered its second decade of post-civil war recovery, following the end of a 27-year conflict in 2002 that had devastated the national economy and rendered earlier currency largely meaningless. The kwanza itself had been redenominated multiple times — the current kwanza readjustado series replaced the previous currency at a rate of 1,000 to 1 in 1995.
The bimetallic construction was a deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure adopted as Angola's oil revenues began stabilizing government finances enough to justify the tooling investment.