Catalog
10 Shillings Independence
| Issuer | Ghana |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Currency | Pound (1958-1965) |
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| Obverse lettering | GHANA 19 58 TEN SHILLINGS |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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Ghana's independence from Britain in March 1957 made it the first sub-Saharan African country to shed colonial rule, and this 1958 issue was among the first coinage struck for the new republic under Kwame Nkrumah. The pieces were minted at the Royal Mint in London — a quiet irony that was not lost on contemporaries.