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1 Dollar Tutankhamun, Death Mask
| Issuer | Bank of Sierra Leone |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse description | The central field features the Arms of the Republic of Sierra Leone — depicting two lions rampant supporting a shield, with palm trees above and a motto ribbon below bearing the legend UNITY FREEDOM JUSTICE — set within a raised circular cartouche. The circular legend REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE arcs above the arms, with the date 2022 in the exergue below. The triangular field surrounding the central cartouche is densely decorated with incuse Egyptian hieroglyphic motifs, while the inscription TUT at the apex and the divided legend ANKH at lower left and AMUN at lower right spell out the pharaoh's name across the field. |
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| Reverse description | A large, polychrome color-printed effigy of Tutankhamun's iconic funerary death mask dominates the central field, rendered in fine detail with blue and gold striped nemes headdress, uraeus and vulture head at the brow, and a broad multicolored usekh collar at the shoulders. The mask occupies the full height of the triangular planchet, its face executed in naturalistic relief against the gold-plated field. Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions, incuse-engraved, fill the left and right border columns flanking the mask, evoking the decorative cartouche bands of ancient royal funerary art. The denomination $1 appears incuse within the hieroglyphic panel at the lower left of the field. |
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Sierra Leone has issued commemorative dollars under this series since the early 2000s, contracting foreign mints — primarily in the UK and Europe — to produce themed pieces aimed squarely at the novelty collector market rather than circulation. KM#495 sits in a long line of such issues, none of which saw domestic use as currency.
Tutankhamun's burial mask was excavated from KV62 in the Valley of the Kings by Howard Carter in 1922 — making 2022 the centenary of that discovery, which explains the timing of this issue.