ZAMBIA 5 shillings 1965

Description

Zambia is in south-central Africa. There is evidence of the ancestors of the Khoi-San people from 150,000 years ago. Bantu people started arriving around 5000 years so. They had a mixed pastoral and agricultural lifestyle. Larger kingdoms emerged in the 16th century. A major war with the Zulu of South Africa in the late 18th century left the region partly depopulated. Europeans started nosing around. The British, coming from South Africa, established businesses. The British government came later to “protect” the region, administering it as “Northern Rhodesia.” Independence came in 1964.

It has been habitual, on the collecting side of numismatics, for “Africa” to exclude the Mediterranean coastal states, which are typically lumped in with the other Arab states in the category “Middle East.” Generally speaking, there was a colonial period and an independent period.

By “Modern World Coins” we mean here, generally, the round, flat, shiny metal objects that people have used for money and still do. “Modern,” though, varies by location. There was some other way they were doing their economies, and then they switched over to “modern coins,” then they went toward paper money, now we’re all going toward digital, a future in which kids look at a coin and say “What’s that?” We’ll say: “We used to use those to buy things.” Kids will ask “How?” The main catalog reference is the Standard Catalog of World Coins, to which the KM numbers refer.