2 Kwacha

Zambia's first post-independence note series, of which this is part, was issued while the country was navigating the economic fallout from Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965. The UDI severed Zambia's primary rail route to the sea and forced a costly logistical restructuring of copper exports — the industry that underpinned the entire currency's credibility.

Thomas De La Rue printed the series during a period when the firm held contracts across much of newly independent Anglophone Africa, producing notes that were technically competent but largely formulaic in construction. The watermark security on this issue is modest by even 1968 standards.