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2 Kwacha
| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of President Kenneth Kaunda at right, with the national arms at upper centre. A dot appears between the denomination letter and numeral in the value indicator. The Bank of Zambia name and promise-to-pay inscription are rendered across the face of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF ZAMBIA TWO KWACHA K2 |
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Zambia's first post-independence note series, of which this is part, was issued while the country was navigating the economic fallout from Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965. The UDI severed Zambia's primary rail route to the sea and forced a costly logistical restructuring of copper exports — the industry that underpinned the entire currency's credibility.
Thomas De La Rue printed the series during a period when the firm held contracts across much of newly independent Anglophone Africa, producing notes that were technically competent but largely formulaic in construction. The watermark security on this issue is modest by even 1968 standards.