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1 Penny Sierra Leone Company/Gold Coast Mule
| Emittent | Sierra Leone Company |
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| Jahr | 1796 |
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| Ausrichtung | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Aversbeschreibung | A powerfully rendered lion in profile faces left, depicted in a crouching or prowling stance atop a rocky ground line, its large mane rendered in high relief with considerable artistic detail. The beast's head is turned toward the viewer, displaying a full, dramatic mane. The circular legend SIERRA LEONE COMPANY arcs around the upper field, with the word AFRICA appearing in the lower exergual area. The overall design is bold and well-executed in the late 18th-century British token tradition. |
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| Reversbeschreibung | The arms of the Company of Merchants Trading to Africa occupy the central field, displayed on an oval shield supported by two standing male figures — one African and one European — serving as dexter and sinister supporters respectively. The shield bears a sailing vessel in the lower portion and an elephant passant above, with a further elephant as the crest atop the helm. The circular legend FREE TRADE TO AFRICA . BY ACT . OF PARLIAMENT . 1750 . surrounds the entire design, referencing the Act of Parliament that governed African trade, and the composition follows the heraldic convention of arms with supporters typical of chartered trading companies. |
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This piece is a mule — a coin struck from dies that were never intended to be paired together. The Sierra Leone Company, a British commercial enterprise chartered in 1792 to govern the Province of Freedom settlement, commissioned coinage through Matthew Boulton's Soho Mint in Birmingham. At some point during production, a penny obverse die intended for Sierra Leone Company coinage was paired with a reverse die prepared for Gold Coast use, producing a hybrid that almost certainly left the mint without official sanction.
Boulton's operation was handling multiple colonial coin contracts simultaneously in the 1790s, and die mix-ups at Soho, while rare, were not without precedent.