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10 Kwacha WWF
| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of President Kenneth David Kaunda facing right, rendered in high relief against a deeply mirrored proof field. The legend ZAMBIA arcs along the upper periphery, while the date 1986 appears in the lower exergual area. The portrait is unadorned and naturalistic in style, consistent with the official presidential coinage of the period. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Zambia's involvement with the WWF coin program placed it among roughly a dozen nations that issued commemorative silver pieces under the organization's licensing arrangement during the 1980s. The specific fauna featured on Zambian issues reflected the country's actual conservation pressures at the time — poaching and habitat loss in the Luangwa Valley were acute enough by the mid-1980s that international NGO attention was actively focused there.
Low mintages across the WWF series generally, combined with limited collector infrastructure in Zambia itself, means most surviving examples were absorbed directly into European and North American collections at issue.