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| 背面描述 | The numeral '10' occupies the central field, flanked above and below by a horizontal lozenge-shaped ornament serving as a dividing rule. The legend 'GRIQUA' arcs around the upper periphery and 'TOWN' appears inverted along the lower periphery, the latter being set upside-down relative to the obverse orientation. The overall layout is bold and utilitarian, consistent with the emergency token coinage struck for the Griqua community at Griquatown. |
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| 背面铭文 | GRIQUA 10 TOWN (inverted) |
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The London Missionary Society issued these pieces not as currency in any conventional sense but as a practical solution to a barter economy at the Griqua Town mission station in the Northern Cape. Coinage simply did not reach that far into the interior, and the LMS needed a medium for local trade with the Griqua people. The addition of tin to the silver alloy was almost certainly a deliberate economy measure — bullion was difficult to source this far from Cape Town.
These are among the earliest coins struck for circulation in what is now South Africa, predating any government-sanctioned colonial coinage for the region by decades.