2 Ngwee
© Museum Victoria
Features
| Issuer |
Zambia
 |
|---|---|
| Period |
Republic (1964-date)
|
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Years | 1968-1978 |
| Value | 2 Ngwee (0.02 ZMK) |
| Currency | Kwacha (1968-2012) |
| Composition | Bronze (97% Copper, 0.5% Tin, 2.5% Zinc) |
| Weight | 4.67 g |
| Diameter | 21 mm |
| Thickness | 1.66 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Demonetized | 1 July 2013 |
| Number | N# 13445 |
| References | KM# 10 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). Battenberg Gietl Verlag (publisher). Weltmünzkatalog. Battenberg Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf, Bavaria, Germany (4 volumes). Richard Sperry Yeoman. R. S. Yeoman's Modern & Current World Coins (16 volumes). |
Obverse
Kenneth Kaunda, president of Zambia, facing right, date below.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
ZAMBIA
1968
Reverse
Flying Martial Eagle, value beside
Script: Latin
Lettering:
TWO
NGWEE
2
Edge
Plain
© Julio Vega (CC BY-NC-SA)
Mints
| Royal Mint (Tower Hill), London, United Kingdom (1810-1975) | |
| Royal Mint, Llantrisant, United Kingdom (1968-date) |
Comments
Due to high inflation starting in the late 1980s, these coins fell out of circulation by 1992.
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| Date | Mintage | G | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | Frequency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 1968 | 19 000 000 | $ 0.07 | $ 0.23 | $ 0.31 | $ 0.46 | $ 0.58 | $ 0.71 | $ 1.70 | London Mint | 95% | |||||
| 1968 | 4 000 | London Mint; Proof | 1.2% | ||||||||||||
| 1978 | Llantrisant Mint | 3% | |||||||||||||
| 1978 | 24 000 | $ 2.30 | Llantrisant Mint; Proof | 3% | |||||||||||
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