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250 Dollars Centenary of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
| Issuer | Bank of Sierra Leone |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Type | Collector coin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
| Mint | (PM) Pobjoy Mint, Surrey, United Kingdom (1965-2023) |
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Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 was as much a spectacle of imperial logistics as celebration — coordinating heads of state, colonial troops, and street processions across an empire spanning roughly a quarter of the world's land surface. Sierra Leone, as a Crown Colony since 1808, was part of that empire, though the centenary issue comes from an independent nation making a commercial commemorative decision rather than any act of political continuity.
The 1997 date places this coin in the same year Sierra Leone's civil war entered one of its most destructive phases, the RUF's campaign having already displaced hundreds of thousands.