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100 000 Kwacha - Elizabeth II Queen Mother
| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Value | 100 000 Kwacha (100 000 ZMK) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central gilded medallion depicting a facing three-quarter portrait of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in later life, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and multiple strands of pearls, applied in gold to the polished silver field. Surrounding the central medallion in the wider silver field are multiple relief portraits of the Queen Mother at various stages of her life, including a youthful effigy at right and childhood portraits at left. A depiction of Clarence House and a royal heraldic shield appear in the lower field, while a royal crown and a draped Union flag are rendered in the upper right. The circumferential legend ELISABETH · ANGELA · MARGUERITE · QUEEN MUM · 30. MARCH · 2002 runs along the border, separated from the inner field by a decorative arrow motif, with the year 2002 inscribed vertically at right. |
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This piece belongs to a wave of outsized commemorative issues produced in the early 2000s by smaller central banks — Zambia prominent among them — that licensed royal and celebrity likenesses for collector market revenue rather than domestic circulation. The Bank of Zambia had no particular constitutional or Commonwealth tie compelling this issue; it was commercially motivated. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother died in March 2002 at age 101, and several mints rushed commemoratives to market that year.
At 3 kilograms of .999 silver cast into a 130mm disc, handling without purpose-built storage is genuinely inadvisable.