The Ghanaian pound was the currency of Ghana between 1958 and 1965. It was subdivided into 20 shillings, each of 12 pence. Until 1958, Ghana used the British West African pound, after which it issued its own currency. In 1965, Ghana introduced the first cedi at a rate of 1 pound = 2.4 cedi, i.e., 1 cedi = 100 pence.
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Go also to the nerve-racked, go to the enslaved-by-convention,
Bear to them my contempt for their oppressors.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)