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10 Dollars Tutankhamun, Death Mask
| Issuer | Bank of Sierra Leone |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Shape | Triangular (56.2mm x 40.7mm) |
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| Obverse script | Latin, Hieroglyphic |
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| Mintage | 2022 PM - Proof - 500 |
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Sierra Leone has issued commemorative silver dollars under this nominal denomination for decades, contracting with private minting houses — primarily in Europe — to produce collector pieces that bear no meaningful relationship to the country's actual currency, the leone. The "10 Dollars" face value is a legal fiction maintained to give the piece status as official coinage.
The encapsulated sand here is sourced from Egypt — almost certainly marketed as originating near the Valley of the Kings, where Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered by Howard Carter in November 1922, exactly a century before this coin's issue date. That centenary is the entire reason this piece exists.