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1000 Kwacha Roald Amundsen
| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#100a |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2000 - Proof - 15,000 |
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Zambia's commemorative program in the late 1990s and early 2000s leaned heavily on international explorer and discovery themes — a curious choice for a landlocked nation, but commercially driven rather than historically motivated. These issues were produced primarily for the collector market, not circulation, and were sold through overseas distributors. Amundsen's selection here likely reflects the broader 1990s wave of Antarctic anniversary commemoratives following renewed scholarly attention to the 1910–12 race to the South Pole.
The oval planchet — confirmed by the 40 x 30 mm dimensions — places this among Zambia's more unusual format experiments of that period.