Catalog
1/2 Penny
| Issuer | Bank of Ghana |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Diameter | 21 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | CIVITATIS GHANIENSIS CONDITOR P.V. KWAME NKRUMAH (Translation: Kwame Nkrumah, the Founder of the State of Ghana) |
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| Mintage | 1958 - - 32,200,000 1958 - Proof - 20,000 |
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Ghana's 1958 coinage — this half penny included — was the first issued under the new republic following independence from Britain in 1957. The Royal Mint in London struck the entire inaugural series, a practical arrangement given Ghana had no domestic minting infrastructure. Within a decade the half penny denomination was rendered economically irrelevant by inflation and was discontinued before the 1965 currency reform that replaced the pound-based system with the cedi.