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SIERRA LEONE: gilt AE cent, 1791, NGC Proof details

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - Africa Start Price:600.00 USD Estimated At:600.00 - 800.00 USD
SIERRA LEONE: gilt AE cent, 1791, NGC Proof details
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This item SOLD at 2023 Sep 15 @ 16:24UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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SIERRA LEONE: gilt AE cent, 1791, KM-1a, FT-88, Sierra Leone Company, struck at the Soho Mint, Birmingham, cleaned, NGC graded Proof details. This denomination bears the date 1791, the date of the re-establishment of Granville Town, Province of Freedom, which was founded in 1787 and destroyed in 1789, but the coins were actually struck in May 1793. The first of this gilt Cent variety that we've handled, listed as six times more valuable than the standard proof strike in The Coinage of British West Africa & St. Helena 1684-1958 by David Vice.