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2 Lisente - Moshoeshoe II
| Issuer | Lesotho |
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| Year | 1979-1989 |
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| Composition | Nickel brass |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Lesotho's coinage as an independent nation dates only to 1966, when the former British protectorate of Basutoland shed its colonial designation. The Kingdom of Lesotho — entirely landlocked within South Africa — conducted much of its daily commerce through South African Rand, making its own fractional coinage largely ceremonial in economic function. Moshoeshoe II, the issuing monarch here, was twice deposed: first in 1990 by the military government of Justin Lekhanya, then permanently in 1996 following a second removal that placed his son Letsie III on the throne.