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Message:: [QUOTE="Clinker, post: 419944, member: 6229"]Since 2005 Sierra Leone has been releasing sets of 4 African Wildlife Crown-size Copper-Nickel One Dollar coins. The 2005 Set honored the crocodile, giraffe, mountain gorilla and hippotamus. The 2006 set honored the chimpanzee, impala, camel and lion. The 2007 set honored the cheetah, elephant, rhinoceros, and zebra. Here's a photo showing the reverses of the 2005 coins courtesy of joelscoins.com: <a href="http://www.joelscoins.com/images/sierraleone05br.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.joelscoins.com/images/sierraleone05br.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.joelscoins.com/images/sierraleone05br.jpg</a>  Before you view the other reverses I want to let you see what is on the obverse of these African Wildlife coins so here's a photo of a 1987 Sierra Leone 1 Leone. That's Sierra Leone's National Arms on the dated side AND that's what's on the obverse of the African Wildlife coins (courtesy of World Coin Gallery): <a href="http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/coin.php?image=img1/156-43&desc=Sierra%20Leone%20km43%201%20Leone%20(1987,1988" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/coin.php?image=img1/156-43&desc=Sierra%20Leone%20km43%201%20Leone%20(1987,1988" rel="nofollow">http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/coin.php?image=img1/156-43&desc=Sierra Leone km43 1 Leone (1987,1988</a>)  Here's a photo of the 2006s: <a href="http://www.joelscoins.com/images/sl06animalsetr.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.joelscoins.com/images/sl06animalsetr.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.joelscoins.com/images/sl06animalsetr.jpg</a>  Here are the 2007s: <a href="http://www.joelscoins.com/images/sierraleone07zr.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.joelscoins.com/images/sierraleone07zr.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.joelscoins.com/images/sierraleone07zr.jpg</a>  Here's the Headline connection: In 2008 all four animals being honored are nocturnal in nature (they sleep during the day and only seek food and recreation at night). The four animals featured on these coins are bush baby, honey badger, pygmy hippopotamus and a duiker. One of Sierra Leone's mint employees suggested setting a precedence with these four coins:  "Since all four animals are creatures of the night why not create an original black finish?" All agreed. Here they are (all in Black Uncirculated): <a href="http://www.joelscoins.com/images/sierraleone08r.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.joelscoins.com/images/sierraleone08r.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.joelscoins.com/images/sierraleone08r.jpg</a>  Hope you enjoyed.... Clinker                      [/QUOTE]

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