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1000 Kwacha Giant Panda
| Issuer | Zambia |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Technique | Milled, Colored |
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| Obverse lettering | ZAMBIA 2014 1000 KWACHA ONE ZAMBIA ONE NATION |
| Reverse description | The reverse features a vivid full-color depiction of an adult giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) standing facing left in the foreground, accompanied by a smaller juvenile panda seated to its right, both rendered in naturalistic black-and-white coloring. Bamboo foliage in relief occupies the right and upper portions of the field. A globe inset in the lower center of the field highlights the geographic range of the species, set with an applied blue crystal gemstone. The legend ENDANGERED ANIMAL SPECIES arcs along the upper left periphery, with GIANT PANDA inscribed along the right side, both legends incuse into the field. |
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Zambia's currency, the kwacha, was redenominated in 2013 — one new kwacha replacing one thousand old ones — making this 1000 kwacha denomination an artifact of the transition period, issued just as that face value became numerically identical to a single unit of the new currency. The Giant Panda series it belongs to has been a vehicle for Chinese-market coin sales more than domestic circulation, with Zambia lending its issuing authority to pieces aimed squarely at collectors in Asia.