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2 Cedis Muskox - Tundra Zone
| Issuer | Bank of Ghana |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Currency | Third cedi (2007-date) |
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| Reverse description | Central depiction of a Muskox (Ovibos moschatus) rendered in full colour, set within a circular coloured band representing the tundra habitat. The inscription TUNDRA ZONE arcs along the periphery of the design, identifying the climate zone theme of this collector series. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Ghana's "Tundra Zone" muskox has no business on a West African coin — the muskox is native to Arctic Canada, Greenland, and parts of northern Russia, ecosystems with no geographic or historical connection to Ghana whatsoever. This is a bullion-adjacent novelty issue produced for the international collector market, a category that exploded in the 2010s as mints and licensing intermediaries marketed themed wildlife series to European and North American collectors through distributors largely bypassing the issuing nation's domestic economy.
Silver-plated copper-nickel rather than solid silver places this squarely in the lower tier of such releases.