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500 Sika Convex - Wrestler
| Issuer | Bank of Ghana |
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| Year | 2003 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Ghana's "Sika" series from the early 2000s was part of a broader wave of novelty collector issues produced across sub-Saharan Africa, typically contracted through European minting intermediaries targeting the international numismatic market rather than domestic circulation. The convex planchet on this piece is a production feature shared with several contemporaneous issues from the same commercial program, achieved by pressing a standard planchet against a curved die pair.
The wrestling subject draws on traditional Ghanaian folk sport, though the choice was almost certainly driven by the issuing agent's market research rather than any state cultural mandate.