colonialism coins

It has suddenly occurred to me that there must be surviving coins from the era of African colonialism. Is there such a thing as a British East Africa coin or a German West Africa coin? If there are such coins and others (and I wouldn't know the denominations), I would love to learn about them. Thanks to anybody.

 

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Gunsmoke,Nigeria - British West Africa had coins between 1906 & 1911,British West Africa had coins from 1912 to 1958,East Africa & Uganda Protectorates had coins between 1906 & 1919,East Africa had coins from 1920 to 1964.

German East Africa had coins between 1890 & 1916.The other German colonies in Africa used regular German coins.

If you have a copy of the Krause catalogues,you can look them up yourself.If not,you can look at the one in the public library or buy one from www.amazon.com .

Aidan.

 

Here is a link to one of my posts :smile

http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=22298

De Orc :thumb:

 

Here's one from German East Africa

 

I really didn't expect to see such a handsome face. :whistle:

 

Have you seen the recent (alternative) Budweiser video with the chimp as the leading actor?

 

Ian,that is a German East Africa Company 2 Rupien.This series of silver & its successor series from German East Africa itself is very hard to find.

Aidan.

 

There used to be a way to reply to a whole thread (I think), but I don't see that now. I don't know where this reply will appear, but I want to thank everybody who responded to my thread on colonial coins. Those responses were wonderful, and so were the coins that were shown. Those coins are full of history.
I appreciate everybody who responded and I was fascinated by the coin pics. Thanks! gunsmoke