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1 Dollar Golden Wedding
| Issuer | Republic of Sierra Leone |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE 1997 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark the golden wedding anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in 1997, this piece belongs to a wave of commemorative coinage produced by Commonwealth-adjacent and non-Commonwealth nations alike, many with no constitutional link to the British crown whatsoever. Sierra Leone had been a republic since 1971 and had no obligation — ceremonial or political — to issue such a piece. The motivation was almost certainly commercial: the late 1990s market for British royal commemoratives among collectors in the UK and North America was substantial enough to make licensed issues from distant mints genuinely profitable.