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20 Kwacha 1994 Olympics
| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Value | 20 Kwacha (20 ZMK) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Milled |
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Zambia's Olympic commemorative program in the early 1990s was largely driven by a third-party licensing arrangement common among smaller nations with no realistic medal prospects — the coins were designed, marketed, and distributed almost entirely through foreign numismatic brokers, with the issuing central bank receiving a flat fee. The 1994 issue predates the Lillehammer Winter Games and the Atlanta Summer Games, placing it in an odd promotional limbo between two Olympic cycles.
KM#33 is one of several Zambian pieces from this period sharing near-identical planchet specifications, suggesting a single contracted mint supplied blanks across multiple commemorative runs.