250 Kwacha Conservation

Zambia's 1979 conservation coinage was issued as part of a broader UN-coordinated program that prompted dozens of nations to release wildlife-themed gold and silver pieces throughout the late 1970s. The initiative tied coin revenue directly to wildlife preservation funding — a largely symbolic arrangement, though it did generate international collector interest at a moment when Zambia's copper-dependent economy was under severe pressure from collapsing global copper prices.

Fr#1 in the Friedberg gold reference confirms this as the first and only gold type attributed to Zambia in that catalog.