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Malawi pound: research record

Evidence coverage: 1964–1971. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.

This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.

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Malawi pound

FTM000199 · Research draft
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: 1964–1971; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

Children / successors

Malawi kwachadecimal currency replacement · 15 February 1971, Part III commencement in consolidation
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Siblings

Unit and issue records 1 records

Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.

Malawi poundFTM000777 · C621, C622, C623, C625

Latest research

Modern account-unit review

Federal pound survived1963dissolution;1964–1965nationalcurrency transition divided federal monetary assets/liabilities as oldmoney withdrawn. Original law and contemporary UN territorialreplacement history support regional succession,not exact independence-daybirth. Supported relationship from explicit contemporary monetary succession; range and missing universal ratio remain scoped limitations, not a doubtful existence claim.

Sources and qualifications →
Monetary history 1 events

Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.

1971-02-15Pound decimal conversion

The Malawi consolidation gives 15 February 1971 for Part III’s currency conversion, separately from Parts I–II commencing on 15 September 1970. Section 15 converts covered pound, shilling and pence references at two kwacha per pound and ten tambala per shilling, with contextual exceptions.

C621, C622
Evidence & research notes 6 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C621

The Malawi consolidation gives 15 February 1971 for Part III’s currency conversion, separately from Parts I–II commencing on 15 September 1970.

Republic of Malawi; MalawiLII / Laws.Africa · Decimal Currency Act, Chapter 45:02 (Act 30 of 1970), version at 31 December 2014 Citation S339 · Open source ↗

commencement table, printed p.1 / PDF p.3

Source access and limitations

Not an as-made copy: carries Fifth Revised Edition / L.R.O.1/2018 annotation.

Original commencement notices and actual cash withdrawal/redemption endpoints are still needed.

Threepence equivalent is written in words; malformed parenthetical numeral is not transcribed.

Supported C622

Section 15 converts covered pound, shilling and pence references at two kwacha per pound and ten tambala per shilling, with contextual exceptions.

Republic of Malawi; MalawiLII / Laws.Africa · Decimal Currency Act, Chapter 45:02 (Act 30 of 1970), version at 31 December 2014 Citation S339 · Open source ↗

s.15(1)–(3), printed p.4

Source access and limitations

Not an as-made copy: carries Fifth Revised Edition / L.R.O.1/2018 annotation.

Original commencement notices and actual cash withdrawal/redemption endpoints are still needed.

Threepence equivalent is written in words; malformed parenthetical numeral is not transcribed.

Supported C623

Section 16 requires domestic-currency payments in the new unit while explicitly valuing old notes and coins for continued use; foreign-currency payments are excepted.

Republic of Malawi; MalawiLII / Laws.Africa · Decimal Currency Act, Chapter 45:02 (Act 30 of 1970), version at 31 December 2014 Citation S339 · Open source ↗

s.16(1)–(2), printed p.5

Source access and limitations

Not an as-made copy: carries Fifth Revised Edition / L.R.O.1/2018 annotation.

Original commencement notices and actual cash withdrawal/redemption endpoints are still needed.

Threepence equivalent is written in words; malformed parenthetical numeral is not transcribed.

Inference C625

The payment table maps a former florin to twenty tambala and threepence to two and one-half tambala; decimal commencement alone does not prove old-coin extinction.

Republic of Malawi; MalawiLII / Laws.Africa · Decimal Currency Act, Chapter 45:02 (Act 30 of 1970), version at 31 December 2014 Citation S339 · Open source ↗

s.16 table 2, printed p.5; words checked visually; final inference editorial

Source access and limitations

Not an as-made copy: carries Fifth Revised Edition / L.R.O.1/2018 annotation.

Original commencement notices and actual cash withdrawal/redemption endpoints are still needed.

Threepence equivalent is written in words; malformed parenthetical numeral is not transcribed.

Inference C1252

Federal liabilities and currency were territorially divided into Malawi’s national monetary administration duringNovember 1964–June 1965; connect the already-existing pound profiles, with a bounded transition rather than an invented coin-birth date.

Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R-V25-007. Original law and contemporary UN territorialreplacement history support regional succession,not exact independence-daybirth. Supported relationship from explicit contemporary monetary succession; range and missing universal ratio remain scoped limitations, not a doubtful existence claim. Replacement evidence: C1577.

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa · Economic Bulletin for Africa, Vol.VI No.1, January 1966 (E/CN.14/396) Citation S194 · Open source ↗

January 1966, printed p 72 / PDF p 79, paragraphs immediately before MALAWI; document E/CN.14/396

Source access and limitations

Provides issue date and unit relationship; does not establish complete withdrawal/redemption rules.

Supported C1577

Federal pound survived1963dissolution;1964–1965nationalcurrency transition divided federal monetary assets/liabilities as oldmoney withdrawn.

United Kingdom · Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Dissolution) Order in Council 1963, S.I.1963/2085 Citation S342 · Open source ↗

PDF24,PartVI sections66–70; Claim-specific locators in evidence register

Source access and limitations

Original conditional deadlines do not establish whether later powers were exercised, or the actual last tender/redemption dates.

Federal political dissolution and bank dissolution are distinct events.

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa · Economic Bulletin for Africa, Vol.VI No.1, January 1966 (E/CN.14/396) Citation S194 · Open source ↗

PDF24,PartVI sections66–70; Claim-specific locators in evidence register

Source access and limitations

Provides issue date and unit relationship; does not establish complete withdrawal/redemption rules.

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