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1000 Kwacha Pygmy Hippopotamus
| 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 large color-printed adult pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis) standing in profile facing left at center, accompanied by a smaller juvenile grazing at its side, both rendered in naturalistic polychrome tones against a textured ground with stylized grasses. In the upper left field, a relief globe inset with an applied green crystal gemstone marks the species' native range in West Africa. Foliate branches adorn the upper right field. The bilingual legend HIPOPOTAM KARŁOWATY arcs across the upper periphery and PYGMY HIPPOPOTAMUS along the lower arc, all within a beaded border. |
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Zambia's wildlife coin program of the 2010s was largely a product of the European novelty collectibles market — designed in Zurich or Warsaw, struck in a Eastern European mint, and sold almost exclusively to Western collectors who will never set foot in Zambia. The pygmy hippopotamus is native to West Africa, not Zambia, which tells you most of what you need to know about the zoological rigor behind the series.