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| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 1992-2003 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company Limited, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse lettering | K1000 BANK OF ZAMBIA K1000 I PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND ONE THOUSAND KWACHA FOR THE BANK OF ZAMBIA GOVERNOR K1000 |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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The 1000 Kwacha was the highest denomination in Zambia's series through most of the 1990s, a period when the kwacha was losing value sharply against hard currencies — by mid-decade, the official exchange rate had collapsed from roughly 2 kwacha per U.S. dollar at independence to well over 1,000. A note worth holding in 1992 bought considerably less by the time the series was retired.
The long print run under a single Pick number covers two signature varieties, both bearing Dominic Mulaisho's successor Jacob Mwanza, whose tenure as Bank of Zambia Governor spanned the late 1980s through the 1990s privatization era.