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4000 Kwacha - Elizabeth II Queen Mother
| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Composition | Silver (.925) |
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| Obverse description | Effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, as engraved by Ian Rank-Broadley, occupying the central field. The date 2000 and the Zambian National Coat of Arms appear below the portrait. The denomination '4000 KWACHA' is inscribed at the bottom, with the issuer name 'ZAMBIA' completing the legend. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Issued in 2000 to mark the centenary of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's birth, this piece belongs to the wave of commemorative silver struck across Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth nations alike capitalizing on Queen Mother iconography in her final years. Zambia had no particular constitutional or historical obligation to issue such a coin — she was never Queen of Zambia, which became a republic in 1964 — making this essentially a bullion-adjacent commemorative aimed squarely at the collector market rather than any domestic circulation purpose.
She died in March 2002, less than two years after this coin's issue date.