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1 Penny - George VI
| Issuer | British West Africa |
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| Year | 1937-1947 |
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| Value | 1 Penny (1⁄240) |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Arabic |
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| Mintage | 1937 H - - 11,999,000 1937 H - Proof - 1937 KN - - 11,999,000 1937 KN - Proof - 1940 - - 3,840,000 1940 - Proof - 1940 H - - 2,400,000 1940 KN - - 2,400,000 1941 - - 6,960,000 1941 - Proof - 1942 - - 18,840,000 1943 - - 28,920,000 1943 H - - 7,140,000 1944 - - 19,440,000 1945 - - 6,072,000 1945 - Proof - 1945 H - - 9,000,000 1945 KN - - 9,557,000 1946 H - - 10,446,000 1946 KN - - 11,976,000 1946 SA - - 1,020,000 1947 H - - 12,443,000 1947 KN - - 9,829,000 1947 SA - - 58,980,000 |
| Additional information |
British West Africa was not a single colony but a administrative grouping covering Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia, with coinage struck centrally through the West African Currency Board — established in 1912 specifically to replace the chaotic mix of local currencies and imported silver then circulating across the region. The copper-nickel alloy used for this issue was a wartime-era shift; earlier pennies had been struck in a higher-copper composition, and the change reflected both wartime metal pressures and London's broader rationalisation of colonial monetary supplies.
KM#19 spans George VI's accession through nearly the end of his reign, with striking shared across the Royal Mint and Heaton's Birmingham facility depending on the year.