pesewa การใช้
- One Ghana cedi is divided into one hundred pesewas ( Gp ).
- By 2011 the 1 pesewa had fallen out of circulation due to inflation and is mostly kept in bank vaults.
- One of his major achievement was the re-denomination of the cedi and the introduction of the Pesewa in 2007.
- Ghana's first President Kwame Nkrumah introduced Cedi notes and Pesewa coins in July 1965 to replace the Ghanaian pounds, shillings and pence.
- Four zeros where knocked off the then currency, this led to the reintroduction of the pesewa which is the basic unit of the Ghanaian cedi.
- The first cedi was introduced in 1965, replacing the pound at a rate of 2.4 cedi = 1 pound, or 1 pesewa = 1 penny.