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| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#335 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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This piece belongs to a peculiar category of late-1990s commemorative gold issues struck by African central banks honoring subjects with no geographic or historical connection to the issuing nation. Zambia produced several such coins during this period, effectively licensing its minting authority to generate foreign exchange revenue. The Taiwan Provincial Assembly, which this coin commemorates, was itself being systematically hollowed out politically at precisely the moment this coin was struck — President Lee Teng-hui's constitutional reforms reduced it to a near-ceremonial body in 1998, and it was formally suspended the same year.