Federation Of Nigeria

Here are my latest from the 'Federation Of Nigeria'

1959 1d
1959 1/-
1961 1/-

I would like to get some earlier but have not seen any to date

De Orc :kewl:

 

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Steve

The later two look just like the British Caribbean Territories 25 cent coin you sent me. The design is almost exact except for the depiction on the reverse. Very Interesting .

Thanks For sharing

 

Cut back on costs LOL

De Orc :kewl:

 

On the obverse of both of those shillings there is something on the rim like a bump? (One at 3 o'clock and one at 4 o'clock) Any ideas what that is from?

I notice other minor differences like font size, date instead of denomination on the reverse flanking the image, the two six sided stars on the reverse.

Nice coins regardless but I think I like the BCT coin better, but then again it does have a ship on it .

Darryl

 

Not sure to be honest some sort of imperfection in the die I would imagine.

De Orc :kewl:

 

I see that Nigeria declared independance in 1960. One of your coins is from 1961. How much longer after 1960 did they use the Queens image. If I was at home I would look it up in my catalog.

Thanks

Darryl

 

beautiful coins

 

Without checking it out I think 61 was the last year, but I am sure someone will let us know LOL

De Orc :hug:

 

Steve,there was a 1/- in 1962.Between 1912 & 1959,Nigeria was using British West African coins.Between 1906 & 1911,it was the coins of Nigeria - British West Africa that were being issued.In fact the Nigerian 1/2d. & 1d. design is very similar to the British West African coin designs.There are 2 types of the 2/-,& they're both hard to find.They're coins that still elude me.

Although Nigeria became a British Commonwealth republic in 1963,the Queen's coinage was left in circulation until 1973,when Nigeria became the last British Commonwealth member state the change over to a decimal currency - 100 Kobo = 1 Naira.The plural of Naira is Naira.

Aidan.

 

Thanks Aidan, I knew that they were the last to let go of the £sd but did not realise that EII was on the coins for so long :thumb:

De Orc

 

Steve,there were no pre-decimal coins issued under the Republic of Nigeria,but the old coins were kept in circulation.The only pre-decimal numismatic items that were issued under the Republic of Nigeria were banknotes & postal orders.

Aidan.