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5 Dollars Edmontosaurus
| Issuer | Sierra Leone |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Sierra Leone occupies the central field, featuring a shield supported by two rampant lions, flanked by two oil palm trees, with a smaller lion passant at the base of the shield above a scroll. The design is rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. The legend REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE arcs along the upper periphery in bold raised Latin letters. The date 2015 appears in the lower field below the coat of arms. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Sierra Leone has issued collector-oriented wildlife and prehistoric series continuously since the early 2000s, contracting production through external mints — this piece almost certainly struck by B.H. Mayer or a comparable European facility rather than anything on African soil. The Edmontosaurus, a hadrosaur whose remains are among the most abundantly recovered of any large dinosaur, was first formally described by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1892 from material excavated in the Dakota badlands.
Sierra Leone holds no geographic or paleontological connection to the subject matter.