[Game] World Coins Time Machine… Counting Backward by Year! (Plus Prize Coin)

1791

 

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F R A N C E.
1792.

 

NORWICH.
1792.

 

County of Warwickshire.
1792.

 

County of Cheshire.
1792.

 

P O L A N D.
1792.

 

France, 30 sols - 1792

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1791 Sierra Leone Company, penny
The year on this coin is the year that the Sierra Leone Co. was founded. The coin was struck in 1792, on Boulton’s steam presses at Soho.

http://www.numsoc.net/sierraleone.html
In 1791, the Sierra Leone Company was founded to organise and manage a settlement on the western shores of Africa which would be a refuge for Africans avoiding or escaping slavery. Very soon after its establishment, the new colony found a need for coinage, and eventually an order for a range of denominations was given to Matthew Boulton at the Soho Mint in Birmingham. Commencing in December 1792, One Dollar Pieces in silver and One Penny Pieces in copper were struck. No sooner had these been despatched to Africa, than the Company decided to convert its accounts to a decimal standard, and the penny coins were followed later in 1793 by One Cent Pieces in copper, Ten and Twenty Cent Pieces and Half Dollar Pieces in silver ...

The designs were all similar {the company seal is on the obverse. The reverse design is} an inter-racial handshake ... with one hand unshaded to represent the white man, and one hand shaded to represent the black man.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Sierra-Leone/Sports-and-recreation#ref541017
A group of freed slaves arrived in Sierra Leone from England in 1787 to form a settlement. It failed but was revived {at a new site, Freetown, in 1792} by the Sierra Leone Company, a commercial company sponsored by English opponents of the slave trade. Black settlers who had liberated themselves from American slavery were brought over from Nova Scotia and built a new settlement, named Freetown.

After the British Parliament made the slave trade illegal in 1807, the British government took over the settlement (January 1, 1808) as a naval base against the slave trade and as a centre to which slaves, captured in transit across the Atlantic, could be brought and freed.

 

My last dated conder...the rest are '1790s':



And with this, I am out until 1779 (unless I find and/or buy something in the interim, which is doubtful).

 

Plus, a medal produced for France at the SOHO mint.

 

Louis XVI (1774-1792) - Demi Ecu aux lauriers 1791 A
Atelier de Paris, 2° semestre de 1791 (.A)
LUD . XVI . D . G . FR . ET . NAV . REX ., buste habillé a gauche orné du cordon du Saint Esprit. Point sous le D de LUD
. SIT . NOMEN . DOMINI BENEDICTVM lyre 1791, ecu ovale couronné entre deux branches de laurier, .A sous l'ecu
Tranche inscrite : DOMINE SALVVM FAC REGEM
14.70 gr
Ref : Ciani # 2189



Constitution - 12 deniers 1791 A
Atelier de Paris (A)
LOUIS XVI ROI DES FRANCOIS, buste drapé a gauche, A sous le buste
LA NATION LA LOI LE ROI rose 1791 . 3 . DELALIB . faisceau surmonté d'un bonnet phrygien entre deux branches de chêne
11.82 gr
Ref : Ciani # 2253

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Here are a few, I am away from home right now and it is more of a hassle to find and upload pix.

 

LEEDS.
1791.

 

A Gelderland duit, Holland 2 stuiver and a Utrecht duit

 

Here's a '91.

 

Whoa guys/gals....I have to show you my 92

AV 2 Dukaten 1792 Frankfurt Mint
Imperial City Frankfurt
Commerative Issue to proclaim Franz II as Holy Roman Emperor in Election...
Stempelglanz=MS-66

 

LUXEMBOURG.
1790.

 

1790 Poland, Russia and Zeeland.