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50 Kwacha
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Malawi |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Size | 145 x 75 mm |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of President Bakili Muluzi at right, with a central vignette of a man paddling a canoe set against a stylized sunburst motif; a pelican appears at upper left, and fish with a sunburst underprint ornament the lower left corner. The note is executed in multicolour intaglio with fine guilloche patterning across the face. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Independence Arch in Blantyre set amid trees and landscaped grounds with flagpoles visible, rendered in green and brown intaglio; a coloured fish vignette appears at middle right, with an ornamental guilloche border incorporating fish motifs along the lower margin and denomination numerals K50 at each corner. |
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The P#33 series marked a significant redesign point for Malawian currency in the mid-1990s, as the country was navigating a turbulent post-single-party transition — Malawi had only held its first multiparty elections in 1994, ending three decades of Banda's authoritarian rule. New currency designs in this period carried implicit political weight, though the Reserve Bank kept changes deliberately incremental rather than wholesale.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement was consistent across Malawian note production through this era. The watermark remains the primary security feature — modest by later standards, but sufficient for the circulation volumes Malawi required in the mid-1990s.