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1 Dollar Egyptian God Osiris
| Issuer | Bank of Sierra Leone |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Hieroglyphic, Latin |
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Sierra Leone has issued novelty bullion pieces under its own authority since the 1990s, typically licensing designs to foreign mints and distributors targeting collector markets with no connection to local circulation. This Osiris issue is part of that long-running pattern — a sovereign legal tender frame wrapped around a product aimed squarely at the international thematic coin market. The Bank of Sierra Leone's imprimatur is functionally administrative here.
The reverse frosted finish is applied selectively to create contrast against mirrored fields, a technique refined in modern proof production and now standard across the novelty bullion segment.