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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jimski, post: 2894264, member: 77373&quot;]1791 Sierra Leone Company, penny</p><p>The year on this coin is the year that the Sierra Leone Co. was founded.&nbsp; The coin was struck in 1792, on Boulton’s steam presses at Soho.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]695996[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]695997[/ATTACH]</p><p><i><a href="http://www.numsoc.net/sierraleone.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numsoc.net/sierraleone.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.numsoc.net/sierraleone.html</a></i></p><p><i>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&nbsp; penny coins were followed later in 1793 by One Cent Pieces in copper, Ten and Twenty Cent Pieces and Half Dollar Pieces in silver ...</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>The designs were all similar </i>{the company seal is on the obverse. The reverse design is}<i><i> an inter-racial handshake ... with one hand unshaded to represent the white man, and one hand shaded to represent the black man.</i></i></p><p><i><i><br /></i></i></p><p><i><i><i><a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Sierra-Leone/Sports-and-recreation#ref541017" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Sierra-Leone/Sports-and-recreation#ref541017" rel="nofollow">https://www.britannica.com/place/Sierra-Leone/Sports-and-recreation#ref541017</a></i></i></i></p><p><i><i>A group of freed slaves arrived in Sierra Leone from England in 1787 to form a settlement. It failed but was revived </i></i>{at a new site, Freetown, in 1792} <i><i>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.</i></i></p><p><i><i><br /></i></i></p><p><i><i><i>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.</i></i></i></p><p><i><i><br /></i></i></p><p><i><i><br /></i></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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