Zambia 1982 5 ngwee
This specimen was lot 73629 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, June 2020), where it sold for $75. The catalog description[1] noted, "ZAMBIA. 5 Ngwee, 1982. Kings Norton Mint. PCGS SPECIMEN-67 Gold Shield. This superlative Gem offers intensely brilliant and lustrous surfaces free from any tone and is tied with just two others for the finest in the PCGS census. Ex: Kings Norton Mint Collection." Zambia seceded from the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in October 1964. A set of sterling coinage was issued in 1966. Zambia converted to decimal coinage in 1969 and this type was issued 1968, 1972, 1978, 1982 and 1987, whereupon the denomination was suspended. Zambia has not issued any coinage for circulation since a five kwacha of 1992 (KM 31). President Kenneth Kaunda, depicted on the obverse, was ousted in the elections of 1991 and died in 2021, aged 97.
Recorded mintage: 12,000,000.
Specification: 2.80 g, copper-nickel, 19.4 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM 11.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The June 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.
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