10 Ngwee

Features

Issuer	Zambia
Period	Republic (1964-date)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	1968-1987
Value	10 Ngwee (0.10 ZMK)
Currency	Kwacha (1968-2012)
Composition	Nickel brass (60% Copper, 20% Nickel, 20% Zinc)
Weight	5.66 g
Diameter	23.6 mm
Thickness	1.78 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized	1 July 2013
Number	N# 2568
References	KM# 12 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). , Schön# 12 Battenberg Gietl Verlag (publisher). Weltmünzkatalog. Battenberg Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf, Bavaria, Germany (4 volumes).

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Obverse

Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia, facing right, date below.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ZAMBIA
1978

Reverse

Crowned hornbill, value below.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
10
TEN
NGWEE

Edge

Reeded

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.

Of the coins dated 1968, 13,000,000 were minted in 1967 and 1,000,000 in 1968.
Of the coins dated 1987, 4,000,000 were minted in 1990.

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Date	Mintage	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC		Frequency
Undetermined
1968	14 000 000	$ 0.44	$ 0.58	$ 0.70	$ 1.10	$ 2.00	$ 2.30	London Mint; Minted in 1967-1968	61%
1968	4 000						$ 1.30	London Mint; Proof	1.4%
1972	1 000 000		$ 0.58	$ 0.67	$ 1.20			Llantrisant Mint	26%
1978	1 976 000			$ 0.39	$ 0.56			Llantrisant Mint	13%
1978	24 000						$ 2.60	Llantrisant Mint; Proof	2%
1982	8 000 000			$ 0.69	$ 0.69	$ 0.99	$ 1.60	Llantrisant Mint	11%
1983	2 500							Llantrisant Mint	0.3%
1987	6 000 000			$ 0.60	$ 0.60	$ 0.60		Llantrisant Mint	17%

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