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10 Cents Sierra Leone Company
| Issuer | Sierra Leone Company |
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| Year | 1791-1796 |
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| Value | 10 Cents (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | A prowling lion in high relief occupies the central field, depicted in a crouching posture facing left with its maned head lowered, set upon a rocky ground line. The circumferential legend SIERRA LEONE COMPANY arcs around the upper portion of the coin, while the word AFRICA appears in the lower field below a horizontal exergue line. The design is framed by a beaded border and executed in a naturalistic late 18th-century engraving style. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Sierra Leone Company was a British abolitionist venture chartered in 1792 to govern the Province of Freedom — a settlement established for London's "Black Poor" and loyalist freedmen from Nova Scotia. These copper tokens were struck not by a sovereign mint but by a private trading company operating what amounted to a commercial colony, and they circulated as a practical substitute for official coinage in a settlement the British Crown had not yet formally absorbed.
The Company lost its charter in 1808 when Sierra Leone became a Crown Colony, ending the circulation life of this entire token series.