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500 Cedis Year of the Scout
| Issuer | Bank of Ghana |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#23, Schön#24 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Ghana's 1984 scouting issue was struck to mark the 75th anniversary of the worldwide Scout movement, part of a wave of commemorative gold released by smaller nations through the Franklin Mint and similar agencies during the early 1980s — a period when many developing-country central banks used licensed commemoratives primarily as foreign-exchange earners rather than domestic circulation pieces. Mintages were typically low and controlled by contract.
The .9166 fineness corresponds to 22-karat gold, the traditional standard for British sovereign-series coinage — a specification Ghana's Bank likely inherited through its Commonwealth minting relationships.