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1 Kwacha Independence
| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 1974 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel (75% Copper, 25% Nickel) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing portrait bust of Kenneth Kaunda, first President of Zambia, engraved in high relief against a smooth field. The effigy is unadorned and naturalistically rendered, capturing the president's distinctive features with fine detail in the hair and facial structure. The country name ZAMBIA arcs along the upper legend, while the commemorative date 24TH OCTOBER 1974 curves along the lower left and bottom of the coin. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Zambia's 1974 coinage was issued nearly a decade after independence from Britain in 1964, during the early years of Kenneth Kaunda's one-party state — the United National Independence Party had legally consolidated power just the previous year under the 1973 constitution. That political shift made this issue as much a domestic statement of permanence as a circulating coin.
The Bank of Zambia turned to the British Royal Mint for production, a dependency that would continue well into the 1970s despite the rhetoric of self-determination.