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6 Pence
| Issuer | Bank of Ghana |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Diameter | 16.5 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1958 - - 15,200,000 1958 - Proof - 20,000 |
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Ghana's 1958 coinage — including this piece — was the first currency issued by the country following independence in March 1957, replacing the British West African pound series that had circulated across the region under colonial administration. The Royal Mint in London struck the entire inaugural set, a practical arrangement given that Ghana had no domestic minting capacity at independence.
The sixpence denomination survived only briefly in the Ghanaian system. Decimalization in 1965 eliminated it entirely when the cedi replaced the pound-shilling-pence structure.