Sierra Leone's gold issues of the early 2000s were produced under license arrangements with foreign minting and distribution firms — the coins were legal tender in name but designed entirely for the collector export market, never intended to circulate domestically in a country where per-capita income sat well below a dollar a day. The 2001 wildlife series, of which this piece is part, was struck by the Pobjoy Mint in Surrey.
Sierra Leone's gold issues of the early 2000s were produced under license arrangements with foreign minting and distribution firms — the coins were legal tender in name but designed entirely for the collector export market, never intended to circulate domestically in a country where per-capita income sat well below a dollar a day. The 2001 wildlife series, of which this piece is part, was struck by the Pobjoy Mint in Surrey.