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1000 Kwacha African Hippo
| Issuer | Zambia |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Value | 1000 Kwacha |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A large adult hippopotamus and a smaller juvenile hippopotamus are depicted in a naturalistic savanna setting, with low vegetation and trees rendered in the background field. The inscription African HIPPO appears in the upper right portion of the field. The curved legend AFRICAN WILDLIFE runs along the left and upper periphery within a beaded border, and the date 2014 is inscribed along the lower rim. |
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Zambia's wildlife coin program of the 2010s was partly a response to the collapse of the country's earlier commemorative market, which had flooded collector channels with low-quality issues through the 1990s. The hippo series was a deliberate repositioning — thicker strikes, bimetallic and plated compositions, larger formats — aimed at European and Asian retail buyers rather than domestic circulation. Nordic gold-plated stainless steel was chosen specifically because it photographs well in promotional material while keeping production costs low enough for volume sales through third-party distributors.