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5 Kwacha Likoma Island
| Issuer | Malawi |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Value | 5 Kwacha 5 MWK = USD 0.0029 |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts the coat of arms of Malawi, featuring a quartered shield supported by a lion rampant to the left and a leopard to the right, surmounted by a rising sun crest above a scroll bearing the national motto. The legend LIKOMA ISLAND arcs along the upper periphery, while the motto UNITY AND FREEDOM appears on the scroll within the arms. The date 2007 is inscribed in the lower field beneath the coat of arms. |
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| Reverse lettering | ENDANGERED WILDLIFE 5 KWACHA |
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Likoma Island sits within Lake Malawi entirely surrounded by Mozambican waters — a geographic anomaly dating to the 1890s when the Universities' Mission to Central Africa established a cathedral there, giving Britain enough administrative foothold to claim the island despite drawing the colonial boundary well to the west. Malawi retained it at independence in 1964. The island has no land border with Malawi whatsoever.
This non-circulating issue belongs to a broader run of Malawian novelty coinage from the mid-2000s targeting the collector market rather than domestic commerce.