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1 Shilling - George VI
| Issuer | British West Africa |
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| Year | 1938-1947 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | BRITISH WEST AFRICA . 19 47 . ONE SHILLING |
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British West Africa was never a single colony but rather an administrative fiction — a collective coinage arrangement covering Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia, run through the West African Currency Board established in 1912. The nickel brass composition adopted for this type replaced the earlier silver issues after wartime metal pressures made silver coinage increasingly untenable, a shift that proved permanent. George VI's cipher appears here under a reign that saw the entire region mobilized for the Second World War, with hundreds of thousands of West Africans serving in the Royal West African Frontier Force across Burma and East Africa.