Ok #AtoZChallenge people, I did it again - here is a bonus "L" coin! This time featuring beautiful African scenes from an altruistically-founded country, which answers the question: "Did the USA have any African colonies?"
I hope you enjoy this piece, the information and the coin:
@tkinias@histodons@numismatics absolutely! It's always tricky with these posts. I don't want to trivialize or dismiss anything, but my intention in posting is not to cover every aspect of the history but to give a bit of context to the coin in sharing. So I try to provide links to a bit more info
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hmm–not off the top of my head! the issues are so well-known, at least among scholars of empire, that there aren’t a lot of publications that attempt typology! @CoinOfNote@histodons@numismatics
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but as a taste of the complexity of the issue, in the late Victorian British Empire, you had: Crown colonies, Dominions, chartered corporate colonies, protectorates, protected states, Cyprus (legally not a colony but governed as one), Egypt (legally not a protectorate but treated as one), India (sui generis but technically not a colony), etc., all with distinct constitutional statuses but broadly treated as British possessions @CoinOfNote@histodons@numismatics
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and 19C theorists (Dilke and IIRC Seeley) argued that ‘colony’ only properly refered to places of white settlement, contrary to what would become official usage in the Empire @CoinOfNote@histodons@numismatics
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