5 Ngwee
© African Coins
Features
| Issuer |
Zambia
 |
|---|---|
| Period |
Republic (1964-date)
|
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Years | 1968-1987 |
| Value | 5 Ngwee (0.05 ZMK) |
| Currency | Kwacha (1968-2012) |
| Composition | Nickel brass (60% Copper, 20% Nickel, 20% Zinc) |
| Weight | 2.83 g |
| Diameter | 19.4 mm |
| Thickness | 1.38 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Demonetized | 1 July 2013 |
| Number | N# 3515 |
| References | KM# 11 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). Battenberg Gietl Verlag (publisher). Weltmünzkatalog. Battenberg Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf, Bavaria, Germany (4 volumes). |
Obverse
President Kenneth David Kaunda facing right, date below.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
ZAMBIA
1968
Reverse
Turbina corymbosa, a type of Morning Glory, value below.
Script: Latin
Lettering: FIVE 5 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.
Coins dated 1968 were minted in 1967.
Of the coins dated 1972, 6,000,000 were minted in 1972, 2,000,000 in 1973, and 2,000,000 in 1975.
Of the coins dated 1987, 6,000,000 in 1990.
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| Date | Mintage | G | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | Frequency | ||||||
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| 1968 | 12 000 000 | $ 0.13 | $ 0.13 | $ 0.29 | $ 0.58 | $ 0.69 | $ 0.69 | $ 1.40 | London Mint | 59% | |||||
| 1968 | 4 000 | $ 1.30 | London Mint; Proof | 1.3% | |||||||||||
| 1972 | 10 000 000 | $ 0.23 | $ 0.46 | $ 0.46 | $ 0.54 | $ 1.10 | Llantrisant Mint; Minted in 1972-1975 | 29% | |||||||
| 1978 | 1 976 000 | $ 0.09 | $ 0.58 | $ 0.72 | Llantrisant Mint | 12% | |||||||||
| 1978 | 24 000 | $ 2.60 | Llantrisant Mint; Proof | 2.0% | |||||||||||
| 1982 | 12 000 000 | $ 0.67 | $ 0.67 | $ 0.98 | $ 2.00 | Llantrisant Mint | 14% | ||||||||
| 1987 | 10 000 000 | $ 0.35 | $ 0.73 | $ 0.91 | $ 1.40 | Llantrisant Mint | 14% | ||||||||
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