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10 Cents Sierra Leone Company
| Issuer | Sierra Leone Company |
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| Year | 1791-1805 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#3 |
| Obverse description | A lion passant guardant is depicted in high relief at center, facing left with its full mane rendered in fine detail, its body lowered in a prowling posture over rocky ground. The field is plain and unadorned. The legend SIERRA LEONE COMPANY arcs around the upper periphery, while the word AFRICA appears prominently in the lower exergue, separated from the central device by a horizontal line. The coin is bordered by a fine beaded rim. |
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| Mintage | 1791 - - 4,200 1791 - Proof - 109 1796 - - 9,227 1796 - Proof - 1805 - - 6,100 |
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The Sierra Leone Company was a British abolitionist venture chartered in 1792 to administer the Province of Freedom settlement at Freetown, and its coinage was struck specifically to give the freed Black Loyalist and Nova Scotian settler population a functioning monetary system independent of barter. The company's coins are among the very few issues produced by a private humanitarian enterprise rather than a crown, colonial government, or trading monopoly.
Production was contracted to Matthew Boulton's Soho Mint in Birmingham — the same facility then revolutionizing British copper coinage with steam-powered presses.