Coin: cupronickel ⅒ penny
- Museum number:
- 5-16770d
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm2105016770d
- Alternate number:
- 516756
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Description:
- ⅒ penny coin from British West Africa, 1940; Obverse inscribed with "British West Africa 1940" and a 6-pointed star; reverse inscribed with "Georgivs vs. Rex et ind: imp; one tenth of a penny (English) and an Arabic inscription, plus a crown and two ribbons. Coin is a disk with a hole in the center.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- British West Africa (historic)
- Verbatim coll. place:
- N. Africa, Ghana/Nigeria
- Culture or time period:
- British Historic
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Materials:
- Cupro-nickel
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Coins (money)
- Function:
- 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
- Production date:
- 1940
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2004
- Context of use:
- Money
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)