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5 Cedis Alien
| Issuer | Bank of Ghana |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Central effigy of a right-facing laureate bust, rendered in high relief against a polished field, enclosed within a stylized crescent or horseshoe-shaped frame composed of smoothly graduated spherical orbs of varying sizes arranged in a spiraling arc around the portrait. The arc motif and scattered orb clusters evoke a cosmic or celestial theme consistent with the series subject matter. The arc legend above reads REPUBLIC OF GHANA · 2022, while the denomination FIVE CEDIS appears below the bust, flanked by the inscriptions 1 TROY OUNCE to the left and 999 FINE SILVER to the right. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF GHANA · 2022 FIVE CEDIS 1 TROY OUNCE 999 FINE SILVER |
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Ghana's "Alien Creatures" series occupies a peculiar corner of the modern bullion-collector market — sovereign issues produced not for domestic circulation but almost entirely for export to European and North American collectors through wholesale distributors. The Bank of Ghana has authorized a steady stream of these themed legal-tender coins since the early 2020s, working through partnerships with private minting and marketing firms, a now-common arrangement among smaller sovereign issuers.
KM#208 is part of that program. Whether it trades at a premium depends almost entirely on secondary-market collector enthusiasm for the subject matter, not on any monetary history tied to Ghana itself.