Independence · 1961–1990
Kissi pennies, colonial coins and the leone.
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20 Sierra Leone Cents (1964)
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Sierra Leone 1964 Half Cent Obv 2010
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Sierra Leone 1964 Half Cent Rev 1964
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Locally-made metal-bladed axe, cowry shells and a coin left as an offering on a rock high above a farm in Wara Wara Bafodia Chiefdom, northe 1968
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