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1 250 000 Leones / 100 Afro Stop Ebola
| Issuer | Sierra Leone |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Currency | Leone (1964-2023) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a coloured depiction of a bat in flight, the principal motif associated with the Ebola awareness theme, rendered in colour against a dark field. The legend SIERRA LEONE appears at the top, with STOP EBOLA! prominently displayed across the centre field, and the denomination 1.250.000 LEONES together with the date 2015 inscribed below. The piece is silver-plated and fully coloured on both faces, produced in a strictly limited edition of fewer than 101 examples. |
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| Reverse script | Latin/Arabic |
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Issued in response to the 2014–2016 West African Ebola outbreak, which killed over 3,900 people in Sierra Leone alone and effectively collapsed the country's already fragile public health infrastructure. The "Afro" denomination printed on this piece is fictitious — no such currency unit has ever been adopted by any African monetary authority — making this a purely commemorative object dressed in numismatic clothing.
The 100 Afro / 1,250,000 Leones dual denomination is a marketing device common to the private mint trade, pairing an invented pan-African unit with an inflated local equivalent to suggest exotic legitimacy. Plated at this size and weight, it targets collectors rather than any circulating economy.