E-auction 314-231996 - fwo_508442 - GHANA 2 Shillings Kwame Nkrumah 1958

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Estimate :	7 €
Price :	3 €
Maximum bid :	3 €
End of the sale :	22 April 2019 17:13:30
bidders :	2 bidders

Type : 2 Shillings Kwame Nkrumah

Date: 1958

Quantity minted : 34400000

Metal : copper nickel

Diameter : 26,50 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 9 g.

Edge : striée

Catalogue references :

KM20/6

Obverse

Obverse legend : CIVITATIS GHANIENSIS CONDITOR // P.V. // * KWAME NKRUMAH *.

Obverse description : buste à droite de Kwame Nkrumah.

Reverse

Reverse legend : GHANA // 19 58 // TWO SHILLINGS.

Reverse description : étoile.

Commentary

Kwame Nkrumah (1906-1972) est le père de l’indépendance du Ghana et son premier président. Dernier premier ministre de la Côte-de-l’Or en 1951 sous administration britannique, il remporte une victoire écrasante aux élection législative de 1957, ce qui oblige le Royaume-Uni à concéder l’indépendance le 6 mars 1957. Le pays est rebaptisé Ghana qui devient une république au sein du Commonwealth en 1960. Intérieurement les mauvais résultats économiques accentués à partir de 1962 par une politique collectiviste entraînent un durcissement politique. Il sera renversé en 1966 et mourra en 1972 à Bucarest.
Kwame Nkrumah (1906-1972) is the father of Ghana's independence and its first president. The last prime minister of the Gold Coast in 1951 under British administration, he won a landslide victory in the 1957 legislative elections, which forced the United Kingdom to concede independence on March 6, 1957. The country was renamed Ghana, which became a republic within the Commonwealth in 1960. Internally, the poor economic results, accentuated from 1962 by a collectivist policy, led to a political hardening. He was overthrown in 1966 and died in 1972 in Bucharest.