About the AUD/SZL rate
The AUD/SZL rate is how many SZL one Australian dollar buys. It moves constantly with interest-rate expectations, commodity prices and global risk sentiment - see what moves the rate. Tradergy shows the mid-market reference rate and does not forecast where it’s heading. For the 52-week highs and lows and a daily table, see the AUD/SZL rate history.
Reading the same rate from the other side: the reverse rate, SZL → AUD, is on the receiving Eswatini lilangeni view, and sending Australian dollars to Eswatini is covered on the AUD → SZL transfer page. Every AUD pair sits on the convert hub, and to work in more than one currency at once there is the currency converter.
What Eswatini issues, and what it took back
Eswatini recalled every coin it had produced up to 2014 and demonetised the lot. The Central Bank of Eswatini records doing so in 2016, in accordance with section 26 of the Central Bank Order of 1974, and replacing them with a new coin series introduced in February of that year. The Bank drew that line by year of production, so what settled whether a coin was still money was the date it had been struck.
What circulates now is five notes and seven coins. The Bank dates the notes for you, and they trace the country's issuing history: the one, two, five and ten emalangeni notes entered circulation on 6 September 1974, issued by the Monetary Authority of Swaziland, followed by the twenty in 1978, the fifty in 1990, the one hundred in 1996 and the two hundred in 1998. The coins run from five cents to five emalangeni, the two and five emalangeni pieces among them arriving in 1995.
The right to make any of it belongs to one institution. The Bank states that it is empowered by the Central Bank Order of 1974 as amended, and that it has the sole right to issue notes and coins which are legal tender within Eswatini. It publishes the penalty for counterfeiting on the same page, as a fine of ten thousand emalangeni or seven years' imprisonment, or both.
Currency in issue is a small and measurable thing here. The Bank's audited report for the year to 31 March 2024 puts currency in circulation at just over one and a third billion emalangeni, against unissued note and coin inventory of about one hundred and eighteen million, with currency expenses for the year of about eighteen million.
Sources: Central Bank of Eswatini, Currency · Central Bank of Eswatini, Annual Integrated Report 2023/24