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10 Dollars Olympic Games - Chinese Dragon
| Issuer | Sierra Leone |
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| Year | 2008 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Reverse description | A traditional Chinese dragon dance scene is depicted within a circular border, showing performers carrying a sinuous dragon aloft on poles, with a decorative torch visible at the right. The highly detailed design evokes the festive pageantry associated with the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The legend OLYMPIC - CHINA curves along the upper periphery, and the denomination $10 appears in the lower field beneath the central design. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Sierra Leone has issued commemorative coinage under licensing arrangements since the 1990s, producing dozens of themed series with no meaningful connection to the issuing nation — this piece being a straightforward example of that practice. The 2008 Beijing Olympics generated an extraordinary volume of licensed numismatic merchandise globally, with mints and private distributors securing issuing authority from smaller sovereign states specifically to capitalize on collector demand surrounding the Games.
KM#430 is one of several Sierra Leone pieces from this series, each assigned nominal face values far below their retail price at issue.