Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
250 Kwacha Red-Breasted Swallow
| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
|---|---|
| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 250 Kwacha (250 ZMK) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Two Red-Breasted Swallows (Hirundo semirufa) are depicted perched on leafy branches and facing one another across the central field, rendered in fine naturalistic relief. Two smaller swallows in flight are shown between the larger birds in the middle ground, adding depth to the composition. The scientific name Hirundo semirufa is inscribed in italic lettering in the lower centre field, with a small mint mark below it. The legend RED-BREASTED SWALLOW curves along the upper periphery, and the denomination 250 KWACHA is inscribed along the lower periphery. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | 1993 - - 400 1993 - Proof - 5,000 |
| Additional information |
Zambia's large-format silver issues of the early 1990s were produced almost entirely for the collector export market, with negligible domestic circulation. The country's economic position in 1993 — burdened by IMF structural adjustment conditions and a currency that had lost the majority of its purchasing power — made a 250 Kwacha face value coin a bureaucratic fiction rather than a monetary instrument. The Bank of Zambia authorized these primarily as foreign exchange earners.
At 136 grams, this is one of the heavier numismatic issues of the series, struck by outside contractors rather than a domestic facility, as Zambia has never operated its own mint.