1 Tackoe - George III

The African Company of Merchants, a regulated trading company operating out of British forts along the Gold Coast, issued this tackoe as a trade token to facilitate small transactions at coastal trading posts where Spanish, Portuguese, and local currencies circulated in chaotic parallel. The Royal African Company had lost its monopoly in 1752, and its successor body — the ACM — operated on parliamentary subsidy rather than exclusive rights, which left its commercial infrastructure perpetually underfunded.

The silver striking catalogued as Tn1a is the scarcer variant; a copper issue exists for the same type.