The Gambia's wildlife coinage program of the early 1990s was part of a broader wave of sub-Saharan conservation-themed issues aimed squarely at the collector export market — hard currency revenue for a country whose GDP per capita sat below $400 at the time. These pieces never circulated domestically in any meaningful sense.
The Gambia's wildlife coinage program of the early 1990s was part of a broader wave of sub-Saharan conservation-themed issues aimed squarely at the collector export market — hard currency revenue for a country whose GDP per capita sat below $400 at the time. These pieces never circulated domestically in any meaningful sense.