BIAFRA 2 1/2 shillings 1969

DescriptionTwo different lighting schemes. The surfaces are totally original.What is described in Wikipedia as “ethnic tensions” in Nigeria grew in the 1960s, until the secession of Biafra in 1967. That was the lower coastal southeast region, ethnically predominantly Igbo, where a lot of Nigeria’s oil lay. The northerners waged a war to recover the region, which they won in 1970. Extractive economic policies and ethnically discriminatory administrative procedures have apparently continued in subsequent decades.It has been habitual, on the collecting side of numismatics, for “Africa” to exclude the Mediterranean coastal states, which are typically lumped in with the other Arab states in the category “Middle East.” Generally speaking, there was a colonial period and an independent period.By “Modern World Coins” we mean here, generally, the round, flat, shiny metal objects that people have used for money and still do. “Modern,” though, varies by location. There was some other way they were doing their economies, and then they switched over to “modern coins,” then they went toward paper money, now we’re all going toward digital, a future in which kids look at a coin and say “What’s that?” We’ll say: “We used to use those to buy things.” Kids will ask “How?” The main catalog reference is the Standard Catalog of World Coins, to which the KM numbers refer.