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2 Cedis Johannes Gutenberg
| Issuer | Bank of Ghana |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#149 |
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| Reverse description | Three-quarter facing bust of Johannes Gutenberg, bearded and wearing a fur-trimmed cap, occupying the right portion of the recessed inner field against a blue-toned titanium background. Behind his figure, a detailed depiction of a period printing press with movable type machinery and partially legible Blackletter text passages evoke his revolutionary invention. The smooth milled border carries the series legend TITANS OF GERMAN INNOVATION along the upper arc and the honoree's name JOHANNES GUTENBERG along the lower arc. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Ghana has produced a long run of titanium collector issues under the "Great Inventors" and related commemorative programs, most struck at the B.H. Mayer's Kunstprägeanstalt facility in Germany. Gutenberg's inclusion is straightforward enough — the movable-type press, developed in Mainz around 1450, is a perennial fixture of such series worldwide. Titanium blanks at this weight are notoriously difficult to strike cleanly, and surface coloration through anodization varies between individual pieces, meaning no two examples are chromatically identical.