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1/10 Penny - Edward VII Double Obverse
| Issuer | British West Africa |
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| Year | 1902-1910 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Central circular hole surrounded by a raised crown positioned at the top. The circular legend around the hole reads EDWARD VII KING & EMPEROR and ONE TENTH OF A PENNY in Latin script, with the Arabic equivalent عُشِر الپَنِي inscribed beneath in a bilingual arrangement. As a double obverse pattern, this die face is identical to the reverse, with no differentiated reverse design, making it a rare trial piece likely produced to evaluate the proposed holed coinage format for British West Africa. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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This piece exists as a minting error rather than an intentional issue — a double obverse die cap, where a coin blank was struck between two obverse dies instead of the correct obverse-reverse pairing. The British West Africa coinage of this period was produced under contract, primarily at the Heaton Mint in Birmingham, where production volume and mechanical consistency occasionally gave way to such errors entering circulation across Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia.
Contract mint errors from this issuer are seldom documented with the precision applied to Royal Mint mistakes. Survivors are genuinely scarce.