20 Dalasis Rendezvous in Space

Issued the same year NASA and the Russian Space Agency were finalizing early plans for what would become the International Space Station, this Gambian commemorative belongs to a prolific wave of silver issues produced by small nations with no direct connection to the subject matter. The Gambia ran an extensive commemorative program through the early 1990s, contracting designs and production to foreign minting houses targeting the collector market rather than domestic circulation.

Few of these pieces ever entered The Gambia at all.