10 Dollars David Livingstone

Reverse

Bust of Dr David Livingstone with people paddling canoe

Script: Latin

Lettering:
DAVID LIVINGSTONE 1813-1873
VICTORIA FALLS ATLANTIC OCEAN INDIAN OCEAN
$10

Edge

Reeded

Comment

David Livingstone was a Scottish physician, Protestant missionary and explorer who contributed both to the development and promotion of the British commercial empire and to the fight against the slave trade and the evangelization of southern Africa. (Source : www.wikipedia.org)

This is an automatic translation. The original text is:

David Livingstone est un médecin, missionnaire protestant et explorateur écossais qui contribua à la fois au développement et à la promotion de l'empire commercial britannique d'une part, à la lutte contre la traite esclavagiste et à l'évangélisation du Sud du continent africain d'autre part. (Source : www.wikipedia.org)

Interesting fact

One interesting fact about the 1998 Sierra Leone 10 Dollars (David Livingstone) silver coin is that it features an error in the coin's design. The coin's obverse side features a portrait of David Livingstone, a Scottish missionary and explorer, but the image is actually a mirrored version of a photograph of Livingstone, rather than a custom-designed portrait. This error was not corrected in any subsequent mintings of the coin, making it a unique and interesting collector's item.

• africa
• modern
• british colony