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Valued Member
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Found, stuck away in the corner of a drawer at home Quick Question BWA ? any Info ...   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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not sure what you might be looking for but here is some info out of krause
KM# 9
Copper-Nickel, 30.5 mm.
Date Mintage ------F---VF----XF---Unc----BU
1936 7,368,000 1.25 3.50 12.00 25.00 45.00
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 Australia
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If your question is, "Where was British West Africa", then the answer is: the present-day countries of Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, and a tiny piece of Cameroun. At the time this coin was issued these were all separate British colonies (with what is now Ghana further partitioned into Gold Coast and British Togoland) but they used a common currency.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Nice to see an African coin! Do all the African coins have holes in them?
I'm currently trying to find out if my daughters Dad knows what part/s of Africa his ancestors originated from. He's American ;) Anyways, I want to find out so I can get some African coins from that specific, or even general area, preferably with holes, so I can loop wire through them to make some special earings related to her paternal side ancestry, as a surprize gift for her.
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Do all the African coins have holes in them? No, but there are quite a large proportion of lower-denomination coins that do. See this thread for some discussion on holed colonial coins. In Africa, you've got the BWA tenth, half and 1 penny coins and the East Africa half-cent, cent, 5 cents and 10 cents, The Southern Rhodesia / Rhodesia and Nyasaland halfpenny and penny and the post-independence Zambia penny. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Thanks a lot Sap. My daughters dad is off on a cruise with his wife, sounds like, so won't learn which part of Africa the ancestors came from for a bit yet.
Lower denomination coins with holes would work best anyways as they will be made into earrings by me for my daughter. I'm sure she will wear them a LOT! I wouldn't want to use valuable or rarer ones for jewelry when I can't bezel set them (no workshop or tools to do so)
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Canada
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Braveheart, I'm sorry for going a little off topic in your thread and hope you'll forgive me that. When I saw your African coin, my bells went off about what I'd like to do for my daughter.  That coin of yours is awesome, and old! 1936 wow! I'm glad you posted about it! |
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 United Kingdom
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No problem Dottir ......... Thanks for the replys folks, It was just that I had never heard of a country called British West Africa, and now I understand it was a group of British colonies in west Africa ... Thanks again Just for you Dottir, a South African coin I have ..   |
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Canada
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Very nice shape and looking older coin!! Thanks for posting that. My daughters sister was over there for a while, her Mom, or her stepdad was a Missionary somewhere over in Africa quite a few years ago. Not sure what part of Africa though. I know I sure drool over the jewelry and stones/beads from all parts of Africa, and I guess I can start drooling over their coins now too  |
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United States
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I've attached a picture of my 1952 British West Africa Coin. In reading about these coins with holes, it seems that Great Britain's money, used in African colonies, seemed to trickle back to UK, and there was a shortage of currency in Africa. So Great Britain minted local coinage. Here's my theory- since people in UK could easily mistake African minted coins for their own, they put holes in the middle, because they didn't want Londoners, for example passing off British Crown King George African money as English currency. It would be like us getting Canadian quarters in our change, and then feeling ripped off. The hole made it clear that it was foreign currency. Just my theory on it.
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10/12/2011 10:55 pm
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And here is that picture I promised:  Thanks! |
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