Coin: cupronickel ⅒ penny

Museum number:

5-16770r

Permalink:

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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)