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Sierra Leone Company

British chartered company involved in establishing the colony of Freetown in Sierra Leone.

Kind: company
Region: West Africa, Africa
Recorded period: 1791 – present

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Sierra Leone in the name of the Sierra Leone Company, 10 cents, 1796

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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Sierra Leone in the name of the Sierra Leone Company, 10 cents, 1796

1796

Silver coin. Obverse: facing lion in an attacking posture. Reverse: between twice the numeral: 10, two clasped hands, one white and the other hatched. In the legend the value designation: ten cent piece with the year below. Plain edge. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-5123; its record gives…

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