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Figures
- Figure 1.
Gold Coast, George III, Silver ackie dated 1818. Reproduced with kind permission of Spink & Son Ltd, London.
- Figure 2.
Kumasi Market-lllustrated London News 18 October 1873. Source: From Adjepong-Boateng Private Collection.
Tables
Category Number Central province of Ashanti 48 Goldsmiths in Royal Households 126 Adansi district 11 Obuasi 8 Kokofu 11 Dengiassi 4 Bekwai 59 Mansu N’Kwanta 5 Banka 0 Bantama 34 Djakyie 3 Darkwa 1 Northern Province (Ashanti) 3 Goldsmiths who were not natives of Ashanti, residing in Kumasi* 7 Total 320 ↵* Notes: From Accra and Cape Coast.
Source: Table compiled by the Author from a survey by the colonial administration in Ashanti (March–December 1909). Public Records and Archives Administration Department, Kumasi (hereafter PRAAD): ARG1/1/37.
Year Average Price per Standard Ounce in the London Market Average Price per Standard Ounce Paid by the Mint Rate of Seignorage as Calculated by the Mint Profit on Silver Coinage is Paid into the Exchequer Pence Pence Percent £ 1870–1874 59.77 60.16 10.46 65,657.60 1875–1879 54.06 43.18 18.08 31,701.90 1880–1884 51.41 51.34 28.58 106,930.61 1885–1889 44.84 45.10 46.68 221,103.53 1890–1894 39.45 39.87 70.88 349,207.91 1895–1900 28.47 28.60 131.27 611,801.07 Sources: Memorandum by Sir William Roberts-Austen, Chemist and Assayer of the Mint, Fourteenth Annual Report of the Deputy Master of the Mint, 1883, 9; and Thirty-First Annual Report of the Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Mint, 1900, 89. National Archives, Kew, London.
Northern Trade (% of Total Trade) European Trade (% of Total Trade) Total (Ounces) 1651–1700 25.0 75.0 2,000,000 1701–1750 25.0 75.0 1,600,000 1751–1800 33.3 66.6 1,200,000 1801–1850 12.5 87.5 1,600,000 Source: Author’s calculations based on Timothy Garrard, “Akan Weights,” 163.
Florins Shillings Sixpence Threepence Total £ £ £ £ £ 4,800 4,800 — 7,000 7,000 — — 14,600 14,600 — — — 19,600 19,600 4,800 7,000 14,600 19,600 46,000 Source: MINT 9/86, Records of the Royal Mint, The National Archives Kew, London, 319–320.
- Table 5. Coinage Offences Reported, Sent to Court, and Convicted, in Kumasi and Districts (1934 and 1935)
1934 Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Total (Outside Kumasi) Kumasi Only Ashanti Total Reported 2 3 1 1 — 3 3 3 1 3 4 2 26 11 37 Sent to Court 2 3 1 1 — 1 2 1 2 3 2 1 19 9 28 Convicted — — 2 — — 1 1 — 2 2 1 1 10 5 15 1935 Reported — 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 2 1 — — 12 8 20 Sent to Court — 1 — — — 1 3 — 1 1 — — 7 4 11 Convicted — 1 — — — — 1 1 — — — — 3 1 4 Source: PRAAD: ARG1/1/141 and Author’s compilation from survey data.
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