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10 Dollars Sitting Elizabeth giving Christmas message
| Issuer | Bank of Sierra Leone |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a three-quarter-length effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II seated at a desk, rendered in low relief, with a vintage BBC microphone and papers before her, commemorating her first Christmas broadcast. Thistle sprigs flank the central design at left and right. The curved legend '80th Birthday of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II' arcs across the upper field in script lettering. A rectangular cartouche below the figure bears the inscription 'FIRST CHRISTMAS BROADCAST', and the denomination '$10' appears in the lower field flanked by floral ornaments. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Sierra Leone's Bank has issued a long-running series of commemorative 10-dollar pieces tied to novelty themes, and this is among the more unusual — marking Queen Elizabeth II's annual Christmas broadcast, a tradition begun by her grandfather George V on BBC radio in 1932 and continued by Elizabeth without interruption from 1952. The coin's existence says more about Sierra Leone's commemorative licensing strategy than any constitutional relationship; the country became a republic in 1971, severing the Crown connection entirely.