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1 Leone O.A.U. Summit Conference
| Issuer | Bank of Sierra Leone |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central device consisting of a raised outline map of the African continent set within a double-ringed circular frame, flanked by two laurel or palm frond sprays and a decorative panel of interlocking rings at the base. The circular legend OAU SUMMIT CONFERENCE arcs around the upper periphery, with bullet separators, while FREETOWN 1980 and the denomination 1 LEONE are inscribed along the lower field. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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Sierra Leone hosted the 17th Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity in Freetown in July 1980 — a significant diplomatic undertaking for a country that was, at the time, operating under Siaka Stevens's All People's Congress as a de facto one-party state. Stevens used the summit aggressively as a vehicle for domestic political legitimacy, and the commemorative coinage program was part of that effort. The OAU gathering itself was enormously costly for Sierra Leone's fragile economy, reportedly pushing the government into serious debt.