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| Emittent | Bank of Sierra Leone |
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| Jahr | 2006 |
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| Form | Round |
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| Averslegende | REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE UNITY FREEDOM JUSTICE 2006 |
| Reversbeschreibung | The central field presents a finely detailed scene depicting Queen Elizabeth II investing Prince Charles as Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle in 1969, showing the Queen placing the coronet upon the kneeling Prince, who is robed in an ermine-trimmed mantle. A rectangular cartouche bearing the inscription INVESTITURE OF PRINCE CHARLES 1969 is positioned beneath the figures, flanked by floral sprigs. The curved legend 80th Birthday of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II arcs along the upper periphery in a stylised script, and the denomination $10 appears in large numerals at the base. |
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| Zusätzliche Informationen |
Sierra Leone has issued commemorative coinage for events far outside its own history, and this piece marks one of the odder pairings in that catalog. The 1969 investiture of Charles at Caernarfon Castle — a ceremony choreographed largely by the Earl of Snowdon and broadcast to 500 million television viewers — had no particular connection to Sierra Leone, which had been an independent republic since 1971.
The coin was struck 37 years after the event it commemorates, part of a wave of Bank of Sierra Leone issues from the mid-2000s targeting the international collector market rather than domestic circulation.