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| Issuer | Bank of Namibia |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | UNITY LIBERTY JUSTICE 2008 REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA |
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Namibia's wildlife coin program of the mid-2000s was driven partly by the country's aggressive push into the commemorative bullion market — a revenue strategy adopted by several southern African nations following South Africa's Krugerrand dominance. The caracal series drew collector interest largely because the animal itself is notoriously difficult to census in the wild, its population estimates for Namibia varying wildly between surveys.