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5 Cedis Tattoo-Art - Year of the Rooster
| Issuer | Bank of Ghana |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | A stylized rooster's head rendered in tattoo-art style occupies the center of the field against a black background, depicting a skeletal mask-like face with dramatic detailing in raised silver relief, crowned with a vivid red comb and surrounded by richly multicolored feathers in shades of red, orange, blue, purple, and green applied by colorization technique. The upper arc bears the legend TATTOO ART flanking a Chinese character for rooster (雞) in matching gothic script. A dotted inner border encircles the design, with the inscription YEAR OF THE ROOSTER arcing across the lower field, the date 2017 to the right, and the fineness specification 1 oz .999 SILVER vertically along the left. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Ghana's "Tattoo-Art" series borrowed heavily from the novelty bullion market that New Zealand Mint and similar private contractors had been supplying to Pacific and African sovereign issuers throughout the 2010s — Ghana's nominal authority on the piece satisfying legal tender requirements while the actual commercial driver was collector demand for Chinese lunar themes in foreign sovereign packaging. The rooster issue corresponds to the Chinese lunar year beginning January 2017.
KM#63 was produced under contract, not at a Ghanaian state facility.