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2000 Kwacha / 100 Guilders 1994 World Cup, Mule
| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the Zambian coat of arms, featuring a shield supported by a man in traditional dress on the left and a woman on the right, with a fish eagle displayed above the shield and crossed pick and hoe behind it. A scroll at the base bears the national motto ONE ZAMBIA ONE NATION. The legend ZAMBIA arcs along the upper periphery, flanked by the divided date 19-94, with the denomination 2000 KWACHA inscribed along the lower rim. The coin is struck with a beaded border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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A mule combining Zambia's 2000 Kwacha obverse with the Netherlands Antilles 100 Guilders reverse — or some configuration thereof — this piece almost certainly emerged from the Pobjoy Mint or a comparable private contractor producing commemorative issues for multiple sovereign clients simultaneously. Cross-die errors of this kind are not accidental in any meaningful sense; they result from organizational failures in a production environment handling dozens of nearly identical planchet-and-die combinations for different nations at once. The 1994 World Cup commemorative programme generated an extraordinary volume of such contracted strikes across African and Caribbean issuers.