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1000 Kwacha Rhino
| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | BANK OF ZAMBIA 2000 |
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Zambia's wildlife series coins from this period were produced under license by foreign minting houses — primarily European — and sold almost exclusively to the collector market. They never meaningfully circulated. The rhino issue appeared as black rhinoceros populations across sub-Saharan Africa had collapsed to fewer than 2,500 individuals, down from roughly 70,000 in 1970, a decline driven almost entirely by poaching for the Asian traditional medicine trade.
The .859 fineness is atypical — most commemorative silver of this era runs at .925 — suggesting a cost-control decision by the issuing authority or contracted minter.