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10 Dollars Kariba Dam
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | A detailed high-relief depiction of the Kariba Dam, showing the dam wall and spillway with water cascading below, set against a naturalistic landscape with rocky terrain and indigenous vegetation in the foreground. The scene is rendered with fine engraving detail, evoking the monumental scale of the hydroelectric structure on the Zambezi River. The country name ZIMBABWE arcs along the upper legend in incuse lettering, while the date 1996 is inscribed in the lower exergue. |
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| Reverse lettering | TEN DOLLARS 1 OZ 999 SILVER |
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The Kariba Dam, completed in 1959 on the Zambezi River between Rhodesia and Northern Rhodesia, required the forced relocation of roughly 57,000 Tonga people — one of the largest involuntary displacements in African colonial history. At its inauguration it was the largest man-made reservoir in the world by volume. Zimbabwe's commemorative silver program of the 1990s leaned heavily on infrastructure themes as the country's economic deterioration had not yet made such productions untenable; within a decade, hyperinflation would effectively end meaningful domestic coinage altogether.