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1000 Kwacha 75th Birthday of Queen Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF ZAMBIA 2001 1000 KWACHA |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Zambia's commemorative coinage of the late 1990s and early 2000s was largely driven by the Pobjoy Mint and similar private contract minters producing collector issues with minimal domestic circulation. This piece belongs to that wave — authorized by the Bank of Zambia but effectively a product of the international commemorative market rather than any organic national occasion. Queen Elizabeth II's 75th birthday in 2001 generated a flurry of such issues across Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth states alike, many sharing nearly identical specifications and differing only in the issuing authority's name.