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10 Dollars Honey Badger
| Issuer | Bank of Sierra Leone |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1997-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a highly detailed, naturalistic depiction of a honey badger (Mellivora capensis) in profile, moving to the left within a recessed oval cartouche set against a polished field. The animal's distinctive thick fur, powerful claws, and low-slung muscular body are rendered with fine engraving, with the eyes set with small inset stones. Surrounding the central cartouche, the broad border of the coin is decorated with a frieze of stylized cave-art or rock-painting motifs depicting various wildlife figures. The inscriptions HONEY BADGER and $10 appear in bold relief within the upper portion of the central cartouche. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Sierra Leone's wildlife series of the mid-2000s was produced almost entirely for the collector export market — none of these pieces were ever intended for domestic circulation in a country whose everyday currency ran to Leone denominations orders of magnitude smaller than ten dollars. The honey badger issue sits in a crowded field of similar silver rounds produced under licensing arrangements common among smaller sovereign mints during this period, where the issuing authority lent its name and legal tender status to coins designed, struck, and distributed almost entirely by private minting contractors in Europe.
KM#427 was struck by the Pobjoy Mint in the UK under such an arrangement.