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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aidan Work, post: 31840, member: 1824&quot;]Well,the Imperial East Africa Company issued coins for Mombasa in 1888.The Imperial East Africa</p><p>Company,like the East India Company &amp; the British</p><p>South Africa Company,was a governing organisation that was chartered by the British Crown.It was the East India Company&#039;s policies that was a direct cause of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58,so the British Crown was forced to step in as a result.The British South Africa Company was dominated by Cecil Rhodes,the famous imperialist who dreamed of a British Empire in Africa that stretched from Cairo to the Cape of Good Hope.The B.S.A.C. ruled Rhodesia until 1923,when the British</p><p>Crown stepped in &amp; granted responsible government to both Northern &amp; Southern Rhodesia.</p><p>The only contribution to numismatics that the B.S.A.C. made was the emergency stamp card banknotes of Bulawayo in 1900.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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