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5000 Kwacha Year of the Snake
| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Weight | 28.3495 g |
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| Reverse lettering | 辛巳蛇年 新紀元 2001 NEW CENTURY YEAR OF THE SNAKE |
| Edge | Reeded |
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Zambia's Bank of Zambia issued a long run of novelty bullion-adjacent commemoratives through the late 1990s and early 2000s, largely marketed to the collector and gift trade rather than circulated domestically. The lunar series pieces, including this snake year issue, were produced under contract by foreign private mints and had no practical monetary function in Zambia itself — the face value representing a fraction of the metal content and the coins never approaching circulation.
The Chinese lunar calendar had no particular cultural resonance in Zambia; the issuing authority was effectively licensing its sovereign name to a product aimed squarely at Asian collector markets.