10 Kwacha

Zambia's early post-independence banknote program relied entirely on Thomas De La Rue, a relationship that gave the new republic professionally produced currency but little domestic printing capacity of its own. The 1969 series, of which this is part, replaced the transitional Rhodesia and Nyasaland-era issues that had carried the country through independence in 1964.

The Musakanya signature is the more historically charged of the two — Valentine Musakanya served as Governor of the Bank of Zambia before later becoming deeply implicated in the 1980 coup attempt against Kenneth Kaunda. He was arrested, tried, and sentenced to death, though the sentence was eventually commuted.