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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moneyer12, post: 1080911, member: 28233&quot;]the effigy of queen elizabeth was the standard one used on coins of the commonwealth, only canada, australia, new zeland and south africa used the same portrait as the UK, all the other colonies used the crowned head with the &quot;long hair&quot;..before indepenence nigeria used the coinage of british west africa along with ghana, gambia, cameroon, etc etc. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>an interesting side note is that in the late sixties early seventies there was a civil war and the state of biafra was formed by the rebels, they issued coins and notes but it was soon overrun by the government forces and reverted to nigeria</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH]107463.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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