Afrikanische Pfennige Public Deposited

Definition
  • The name given to a series of gold coins issued from 1682 to 1696 by the German African Company. They obtain their name from a ship on the reverse. In the State Papers of 1686 they are referred to as Afrikanische Pfennige.

Source
  • Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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