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250 Kwacha Conservation
| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 1979 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ZAMBIA 1979 |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Zambia's 1979 conservation coinage was issued as part of a broader UN-coordinated program that prompted dozens of nations to release wildlife-themed gold and silver pieces throughout the late 1970s. The initiative tied coin revenue directly to wildlife preservation funding — a largely symbolic arrangement, though it did generate international collector interest at a moment when Zambia's copper-dependent economy was under severe pressure from collapsing global copper prices.
Fr#1 in the Friedberg gold reference confirms this as the first and only gold type attributed to Zambia in that catalog.