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1 Dollar Lion
| Issuer | Bank of Eritrea |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Weight | 28.28 g |
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| Obverse description | At centre, a national emblem composed of a palm tree, a camel, and a dhow sailing on stylised waves, all contained within a circular border. A toothed rim frames the design, with a trilingual legend appearing around the periphery in Tigrinya (Ge'ez script), English, and Arabic, each segment separated by three stars. The date 1995 and the Pobjoy Mint privy mark 'PM' appear at the base of the legend. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993 after a thirty-year war — one of Africa's longest — and the Bank of Eritrea issued this dollar series in 1995 as part of establishing a distinct national currency infrastructure, the nakfa system having not yet fully displaced transitional instruments. The lion type belongs to a wildlife-themed dollar program clearly aimed at the collector market rather than circulation, a common revenue strategy for newly independent states with limited hard currency reserves.