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500 Kwacha
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Malawi |
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| Year | 2014-2021 |
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| Currency | Kwacha (1971-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | RESERVE BANK OF MALAWI PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND THE SUM OF K500 ISSUED UNDER THE RESERVE BANK OF MALAWI ACT 500 KWACHA REVEREND JOHN CHILEMBWE GOVERNOR |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of Mulunguzi Dam at Zomba rendered in intaglio, with a panoramic view of the reservoir and surrounding forested hills to the upper left. A large water tap is superimposed at centre-right over a latent-image security panel, symbolising the dam's water supply function. Silhouetted figures carrying loads appear at lower right, and the Reserve Bank of Malawi arms are positioned at lower centre-right alongside the bank name inscription. |
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The 500 Kwacha is the highest denomination in Malawi's current polymer-era cotton paper series and was introduced as the country's Reserve Bank worked to consolidate a note range battered by years of severe kwacha depreciation — by 2012, inflation had eroded lower denominations to near irrelevance in everyday transactions. De La Rue's Gateshead facility has long handled Malawi's security printing, a relationship stretching back decades through multiple currency reforms.
The P#66 series ran across several dated issues within the 2014–2021 window, with individual print dates distinguishing scarcer from more common examples within the type.