5 Cedis Machairodontinae

Ghana's "Prehistoric Life" bullion series has drawn collectors largely on the strength of its subject matter — Machairodontinae, the saber-toothed subfamily of felids, went extinct roughly 11,000 years ago at the close of the Pleistocene, likely a casualty of both climate shift and the collapse of the megafauna they hunted. The Bank of Ghana has positioned itself as an issuer of thematic one-ounce silver rounds aimed squarely at the international collector market rather than domestic circulation, a strategy common among smaller West African monetary authorities since the early 2000s.