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40 000 Kwacha Wildlife Protection
| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Diameter | 37.9 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF ZAMBIA 40000 KWACHA |
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| Reverse lettering | WILDLIFE PROTECTION 2001 |
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| Additional information |
Zambia's wildlife-themed bullion and collector series of the early 2000s was produced under licensing arrangements with a European coin marketing firm rather than through conventional central bank channels — a common structure for African nations issuing high-denomination gold pieces with no realistic domestic circulation. The 40,000 Kwacha face value was nominal fiction; the kwacha had depreciated so severely by 2001 that the coin's gold content was worth hundreds of times its stated denomination.
The Farouk reference (Fr#17) places this within the standard gold type census for Zambia, a short series with limited die variety documentation.