1000 Dalasis Lions gold bar

The Gambia has issued legal tender coinage and bar-format pieces through licensing arrangements with foreign minting houses for decades — none of it intended for domestic circulation. This piece follows that pattern, struck almost certainly by a European private mint operating under contract, with the Gambian government lending nominal authority in exchange for a licensing fee.

At 31.1 grams of .9999 fine gold, the denomination is purely notional.