fwo_633740 - SIERRA LEONE 1 Dollar Proof 500e anniversaire de la basilique Saint-Pierre de Rome 2006 Pobjoy Mint
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Type : 1 Dollar Proof 500e anniversaire de la basilique Saint-Pierre de Rome
Date: 2006
Mint name / Town : Pobjoy Mint
Quantity minted : -
Metal : copper nickel
Diameter : 38,60 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 28,28 g.
Edge : -
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE // 2005.
Obverse description : écu entre deux palmiers et deux lions avec devise UNITY FREEDOM JUSTICE.
Reverse
Reverse legend : 500TH ANNIVERSARYOF THE LAYING OF THE FOUNDATION STONE OF ST.PETER’S BASILICA // $1.
Reverse description : Vue de la basilique avec au second plan le Pape et Saint-Pierre encadrés par deux anges, au premier plan l’architecte Bramante et un tailleur de pierre.
Reverse translation : (500e anniversairaire de la pose de la première pierre de la Basilique Saint Pierre).
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SIERRA LEONE
From the 16th century, the coastal populations of Sierra Leone took part in the slave trade within the framework of the triangular trade set up by European merchants. In 1787, the British bought the peninsula which would become the capital Freetown. 400 blacks from London settled there. Then, the Sierra Leone Company helps black loyalists from North America who took refuge in Nova Scotia to settle there. In 1794, Sierra Leone became the first British colony in West Africa. The country became independent in 1961.
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