Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Cents Sierra Leone Company
| Issuer | Sierra Leone Company |
|---|---|
| Year | 1791-1796 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The central device depicts two clasped hands rendered in fine relief, symbolising partnership or trade, emerging from cuffed sleeves on either side. The numeral 10 appears both above and below the clasped hands, with the date 1791 inscribed in the lower field beneath the second numeral. The circular legend TEN CENT PIECE is arranged around the periphery of the coin, flanking the central motif, and the whole is enclosed within a beaded border. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | 1791 - Proof - 1796 - Proof; 1 known piece - |
| Additional information |
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.