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1 Dollar Dragon and three animals
| Issuer | Bank of Sierra Leone |
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| Year | 2001 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The central design features four symbolic creatures associated with Chinese culture and the four cardinal directions: a dragon, a tiger, a snake, and a peacock, arranged in a dynamic composition. Four Chinese characters appear below the principal motifs, referencing the depicted animals. The denomination '$1' is inscribed at the bottom of the reverse field within the legend. |
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Sierra Leone's 2001 wildlife series was a broad commemorative program issued primarily for the collector market rather than domestic circulation, with individual types featuring fauna largely absent from the country itself — the dragon being the most obvious case. The series coincided with a period when the country was still emerging from a brutal civil war that had gutted its financial infrastructure, making collector-export coinage one of the few revenue-generating instruments available to the Bank of Sierra Leone.