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2 Kwacha
| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 2015-2022 |
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| Value | 2 Kwacha |
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| Reverse description | Intaglio vignette of a roan antelope at left against a wavy-line guilloche underprint in red; at centre, two market women are shown with produce and wares in a detailed intaglio scene; at right, the Freedom Statue ('Chainbreaker' monument) in Lusaka is rendered in red intaglio. The issuer title 'BANK OF ZAMBIA' appears across the top, with denomination inscriptions 'TWO KWACHA' at lower left and 'K2' repeated in corners. |
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| Protection description | fish eagle and denomination numeral; embedded security thread |
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The P#56 series was issued as part of Zambia's 2012 rebasing, when the kwacha was redenominated at a ratio of 1,000 old units to 1 new — wiping out the inflationary residue of decades of fiscal turbulence and resetting the currency's face values to something functional for daily transactions. The 2 Kwacha sits at the lower end of that rebuilt system.
Two printers shared production across the series run: De La Rue's Nairobi facility handled some output, Oberthur in France the rest. Minor differences in ink density and thread placement can sometimes distinguish the two print origins on close inspection.