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| 表面の銘文 | 1796 GR (Translation: George King) |
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| 裏面の銘文 | FREE TRADE TO AFRICA. BY ACT. OF PARLIAMENT. 1750. |
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The Ackey series was commissioned for trade use along the Gold Coast, where British merchants needed coinage calibrated to local gold weight standards rather than sterling equivalents. The Royal African Company — by 1796 effectively moribund as a commercial enterprise, its monopoly long dissolved — was still nominally the issuing authority when these trial pieces were produced. Whether full production was ever seriously intended is unclear; the pattern designations in KM suggest these copper strikes were exploratory, possibly submitted for approval that never came.
The Gold Coast trade ultimately continued to rely on gold dust weighed against imported brass rather than minted coin.