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50 Cents Sierra Leone Company
| Issuer | Sierra Leone Company |
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| Year | 1791 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | SIERRA LEONE COMPANY AFRICA |
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| Reverse lettering | HALF DOLLAR PIECE 50 50 1791 |
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The Sierra Leone Company was a British abolitionist venture granted a royal charter in 1792 to govern the Province of Freedom settlement at Freetown. These copper tokens were struck in Birmingham ahead of the formal charter, intended to facilitate commerce in a colony being built largely by freed Black Loyalists evacuated from Nova Scotia. The Company's coinage was one of the earliest attempts to establish a formal monetary system in West Africa under British auspices.
The 1791 dating places production before the Company had legal standing to govern — a detail that reflects how far ahead of its administrative reality the enterprise was operating.