Catalog
10 Kwacha Conservation
| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Value | 10 Kwacha (10 ZMK) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed portrait bust of President Kenneth Kaunda facing right, rendered in high relief with fine surface detail, centrally positioned in the field. The legend ZAMBIA arcs across the upper periphery in widely spaced capital letters, and the date 1979 appears in the lower exergual area beneath the portrait. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Zambia's 1979 conservation coinage was part of a coordinated FAO and WWF-backed program that prompted dozens of developing nations to issue silver collector pieces during the late 1970s, with proceeds nominally directed toward wildlife preservation efforts. Zambia's entry into this series coincided with significant pressure on its national parks from poaching networks operating across the Luangwa Valley.
These were never intended for circulation — produced in limited quantities for the international collector market at a moment when Zambia's copper-dependent economy was already contracting sharply following the mid-decade collapse in copper prices.