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10 Dollars Princess Diana meets Mother Teresa
| Issuer | Sierra Leone |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Reverse description | A touching dual portrait depicts Princess Diana, shown in three-quarter profile facing left, clasping both hands with Mother Teresa, who faces her from the left side of the composition in three-quarter profile. The figures are rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. The inscription 1961-1997 In Memoriam. Diana-The People's Princess curves along the upper and right periphery in script lettering. The label MOTHER TERESA appears beneath her portrait in the lower centre field, flanked by two small rose motifs, with the denomination $10 displayed at the bottom. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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This coin was issued in the months following both women's deaths — Diana on 31 August 1997, Mother Teresa on 5 September 1997, five days apart. The coincidence of their near-simultaneous deaths generated an extraordinary volume of commemorative merchandise globally, and Sierra Leone was among dozens of smaller nations that licensed the imagery through the Bradford Exchange and similar commercial intermediaries. The actual connection between Sierra Leone and either figure is essentially nil.
KM#78 is a crown-sized bullion-weight issue in the broad wave of Diana memorial coins that flooded the market in late 1997 and 1998, most of which were struck at the Pobjoy Mint or the British Royal Mint on contract.