20 Pesewas

Ghana's 1967 coinage series, which included this piece, was introduced following the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah in the February 1966 military coup. The new National Liberation Council moved quickly to purge Nkrumah's image from circulation — his portrait had appeared on the previous cedi coinage — replacing it with the Bank of Ghana's preferred iconography. The decimal pesewa system itself had only been introduced in 1965, so this redesigned series arrived remarkably soon after.

The twelve-year production span across 1967–1979 masks significant political turbulence, including two further coups in 1972 and 1978.