The nickel-brass L1 coin dated 1986 and brass coins dated 1995-2009 had the same dimensions and composition as the British £1 coins introduced in 1983, and thus have sometimes been used fraudulently in British vending machines with the value of the one lilangeni coin decreasing from £0.36 in 1986 to £0.05 in 2015, when those L1 coins were demonetised.