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200 Kwacha
| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Currency | Kwacha (2013-date) |
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| Obverse description | Brown and purple intaglio and offset print on a multicolour underprint, with the Bank of Zambia logo at upper left beside a flower registration device. The central field is occupied by a vignette of the Kazungula Bridge over the Zambezi River, while a fish eagle in flight appears at right alongside a gold OVI map of Zambia and the Zambian coat of arms. A gold windowed security thread with demetalized Bank of Zambia logo and denomination numeral 200 runs vertically through the note. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour offset print centred on a vignette of a herd of elephants beneath an ing'ombre ilede (sleeping cow) tree, with two standing rhinoceroses flanking the composition. Kalambo Falls is rendered at right, and a flower registration device is incorporated for see-through alignment. The naturalistic palette evokes the Zambian landscape in warm, earthy tones. |
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Zambia redenominated its currency in 2013, dropping three zeros and relaunching the kwacha at parity with the new series — so a 200 Kwacha note in that post-redenomination world represents a mid-range denomination in a system that was itself a correction of decades of inflationary erosion. The 2024 issue updates an already-modernized series rather than marking any structural monetary change.
Cotton substrate with watermark and security thread places this squarely in the lower tier of security specification for current African central bank issues — no color-shifting ink, no windowed thread with demetallized text, no raised print.