2 Cedis Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz

Ghana's Bank of Ghana has issued a long-running series of titanium coins honoring figures from automotive and industrial history — an unusual franchise for a West African central bank, driven almost entirely by the European collector market rather than any domestic monetary function. Daimler and Benz, despite jointly founding what became Mercedes-Benz, never actually met until after their companies merged in 1926, years after both men had died.