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10 Cedis Silk Moth
| Issuer | Bank of Ghana |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Technique | Antique Finish |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF GHANA TEN CEDIS FREEDOM AND JUSTICE XXI 2 oz 2023 Ag999 |
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Ghana's silk moth coin belongs to a broader trend of African central banks licensing their names to European private mints — primarily Scottsdale, B.H. Mayer, and CIT — for bullion and collector issues that bear no meaningful relationship to domestic monetary policy or circulation. The Bank of Ghana retains nominal issuing authority; the creative and commercial decisions originate elsewhere.
The silk moth itself is not native to Ghana. Bombyx mori has been domesticated for sericulture across East Asia for roughly 5,000 years and cannot survive in the wild at all — a detail that makes its appearance on a West African coin a purely aesthetic rather than natural-historical choice.