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10 Dollars Chimpanzee
| Issuer | Bank of Sierra Leone |
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| Year | 2010 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Reverse description | A highly detailed, naturalistic depiction of an adult chimpanzee seated and cradling a juvenile chimpanzee, rendered in high relief against a plain field. Foliage elements appear to the right of the composition, evoking a forest habitat. The legend CHIMPANZEE arcs along the upper left in a distinctive stylized typeface. The denomination $10 is inscribed in the lower central field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Sierra Leone's wildlife coin program, active through the 2000s and into the 2010s, was largely produced for the collector export market rather than domestic circulation — the Bank of Sierra Leone licensed these issues primarily as a revenue mechanism during the country's slow economic reconstruction following the civil war that ended in 2002. The coins never meaningfully entered Sierra Leonean commerce.
Western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) remain critically endangered, with a significant population concentrated in Sierra Leone's Outamba-Kilimi National Park.