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| 裏面の説明 | The central device depicts two clasped hands — a motif symbolizing trade, friendship, and the commercial mission of the Sierra Leone Company — rendered in fine relief against a plain field. The legend TWENTY CENT PIECE arcs around the periphery, divided to either side of the central device, with TWENTY ascending on the left and PIECE descending on the right. The numeral 20 appears twice in the field, once above and once below the clasped hands, and the date 1791 is prominently placed at the base. The overall composition reflects the neoclassical engraving style of Conrad Heinrich Küchler. |
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| 鋳造所 | Soho Mint |
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The Sierra Leone Company was a British abolitionist venture chartered in 1792 to govern the Province of Freedom settlement at Freetown, and this coinage was struck ahead of that formal charter to facilitate trade in the colony. The company — backed by figures including Granville Sharp and William Wilberforce — needed a practical currency for a settlement populated largely by freed Black Loyalists evacuated from Nova Scotia.
The gold-plated copper composition reflects the financial precariousness of the enterprise from the outset. The company was dissolved and absorbed by the Crown in 1808 after chronic mismanagement and a French naval attack on Freetown in 1794 that destroyed much of the settlement.