5000 Kwacha Princess Diana and Nelson Mandela

Issued in the wave of commemorative coinage that followed Diana's death in 1997, this piece pairs her with Mandela on the apparent logic that both figures carried global humanitarian associations — a coupling with no historical basis in any documented meeting or collaboration of significance. Zambia was among dozens of smaller mints and issuing authorities that licensed Diana's image during this period, producing silver crowns almost entirely for the collector market rather than circulation.