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5 Cedis - Elizabeth II Bullion Coinage - Crowned Crane
| Issuer | Ghana |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II 5 CEDIS IRB • REPUBLIC OF GHANA • |
| Reverse description | Highly detailed close-up depiction of a Grey Crowned Crane (Balearica regulorum) in three-quarter profile facing left, rendered with naturalistic precision against a savannah landscape horizon. The bird's distinctive golden straw-like crown radiates dramatically across the upper field, while its long, flowing plumage fans across the lower right portion of the design. In the lower left field, an outline map of the African continent bears the inscriptions AFRICA and 1oz Ag .999. Along the upper right rim, the legends CROWNED CRANE SILVER OUNCE and the date 2017 are inscribed in a vertical arrangement. |
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Ghana's bullion coinage program, launched under government authority but produced largely for export to international collector and investor markets, has never been a significant factor in domestic monetary circulation. The African Crowned Crane series sits within a broader wave of African nation-branded silver issues that proliferated through European and Asian distributors in the 2010s — coins whose nominal face values bear no relationship to either the silver content or the prevailing Ghanaian cedi exchange rate.
Elizabeth II's appearance as issuing sovereign on Ghanaian coinage reflects the country's Commonwealth membership, though Ghana became a republic in 1960 and has no constitutional monarchy.