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1000 Kwacha - Elizabeth II Queen Mother
| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#340 |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF ZAMBIA 2000 1000 KWACHA |
| Reverse description | Three-quarter facing portrait of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother depicted in advanced age, wearing a pearl-adorned hat and multiple strands of pearl necklaces, with a brooch at the décolletage. The bust is rendered in fine sculptural relief against a mirror-polished proof field, enclosed within a beaded inner border. The legend 'MILLENNIUM' arcs along the upper periphery, while '100th BIRTHDAY OF QUEEN MUM' is inscribed along the lower arc. The composition commemorates the centenary of her birth. |
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Issued the same year Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon turned 100, this is one of dozens of near-identical Queen Mother commemoratives struck by small-nation mints in the late 1990s and early 2000s — Zambia among them — with no meaningful connection to the subject beyond a licensing arrangement. The Bank of Zambia had no particular historical or Commonwealth reason to issue this piece; it was produced squarely for the collector and bullion-adjacent market, not for circulation.