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354, Lot: 764. Estimate $100.
Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COLONIAL AFRICA, British. Sierra Leone. 1808-1961. CU Penny Token (35mm, 16.96 g, 12h). Commemorating the Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire. Soho (Birmingham) mint. Issued by Macauley & Babington. Dated 1807, though struck 1814. WE ARE ALL BRETHREN, European standing right, clasping hands with African standing left; in background to left, four huts, between, two laborers, to right, five figures dancing around tree; in exergue, SLAVE TRADE ABOLISHED/ BY GREAT BRITAIN/ 1807 / Similar inscription in Arabic. D. Vice and F. Pridmore, “Sierra Leone Penny Token 1814,” in NumCirc LXXXIII.7-8 (July-August 1975), p. 279-81; KM Tn1.1; Eimer 984a. VF.