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| Issuer | Ghana › Ghana (1957-date) |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse lettering | GHANA 1997 10 SIKA |
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| Reverse lettering | MARINE - LIFE PROTECTION |
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| Additional information |
Ghana's "Sika" marine conservation series from the late 1990s was part of a broader wave of thematic collector coinage issued by African nations through third-party licensing arrangements — in Ghana's case, coordinated largely through foreign minting agencies targeting the European and American collector market rather than domestic circulation. These pieces never saw a day in a Ghanaian pocket.
X# designation confirms it: struck for the numismatic trade, not by monetary authority mandate.