5 Cedis Megaloceros

The megaloceros — commonly misidentified as the "Irish elk" — went extinct roughly 7,700 years ago, its range spanning from Ireland to Siberia and as far south as North Africa. Ghana's choice of this prehistoric cervid for a bullion-adjacent commemorative is commercially driven rather than historically connected; the Bank of Ghana has issued a broad series of wildlife-themed silver rounds since the mid-2010s targeting the collector and investor market, most produced under license by European minting houses with little domestic circulation.