5 Lisente - Letsie III

Lesotho's 1994 coinage series was issued shortly after Letsie III's contested ascension to the throne — his father Moshoeshoe II had been deposed by the military government in 1990, and Letsie himself would briefly abdicate in 1995 to allow his father's restoration, only to resume the throne again following Moshoeshoe II's death in 1996. Coins bearing his effigy from this particular year sit in the middle of that dynastic instability.