1/10 Penny - Elizabeth II

British West Africa as a monetary union was already in its final years when these pieces were struck. The British West African Currency Board, which had managed the shared currency across Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, and Gambia since 1912, would be wound down as each territory moved toward independence — Gold Coast becoming Ghana in 1957, the same year this type ceased production.

The one-tenth penny denomination had no equivalent in domestic British coinage and existed purely to facilitate small transactions in local markets.