1 Dollar Queen Mother in garden with dog

Issued the same year Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother died at age 101, this piece is one of several commemorative dollars Sierra Leone produced during the early 2000s under licensing arrangements that had little connection to the issuer's domestic monetary needs. The Bank of Sierra Leone became a prolific vehicle for this type of third-party commemorative coinage, with designs originating from marketing firms rather than the issuing authority.

KM#276 is part of a broader Queen Mother memorial series flooding the collector market around 2002, most struck to the standard 28.28g copper-nickel specification shared across dozens of unrelated commemorative issues from multiple African issuers.