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2 Dollars
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe |
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| Year | 2001-2003 |
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| Weight | 9.5 g |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts the Zimbabwe Bird, a stylised soapstone-carved fish eagle perched atop a decorated cylindrical pedestal with geometric relief ornament, rendered in high relief. The national name ZIMBABWE arcs along the upper periphery in large spaced Latin letters, with two lozenge-shaped separators flanking the date at the base of the coin. The four-digit date appears in the lower field below the pedestal. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Zimbabwe's brass-plated steel coinage of this period was a direct response to the hoarding and melting of earlier solid brass issues, whose intrinsic metal value had begun to approach face value as inflation accelerated. By 2001, the official exchange rate was already a fiction maintained by currency controls, and the Reserve Bank's switch to cheaper plated blanks bought only a short reprieve — within a few years, even low-denomination coins had been rendered economically irrelevant by hyperinflation measured in millions of percent.