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1 Dollar Golden Jubilee Flypast

Issuer Bank of Sierra Leone
Year 2006
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Composition Copper-nickel
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Obverse script Latin
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Reverse description A three-quarter bust portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing a hat occupies the central field, with Red Arrows jet aircraft depicted in formation and a Concorde supersonic aircraft rendered prominently in the background behind and beside her effigy. Floral and foliate ornamental devices flank the lower field. The commemorative legend arcs along the upper periphery in script lettering, and the denomination $1 appears at the base within decorative flourishes.
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Sierra Leone's Golden Jubilee coinage of 2006 marked the 50th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession, produced as part of a broader Commonwealth-wide commemorative program that saw dozens of small issuing authorities contract with private mints — typically Pobjoy or the British Royal Mint's commercial arm — to strike collector pieces with limited domestic circulation relevance. Sierra Leone itself had become a republic in 1971, severing the direct constitutional tie to the Crown, which makes the jubilee framing something of a commercial decision rather than a constitutional one.

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