? The Hong Kong Twenty Cent coin issued during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II featured the Queens portrait by Raphael Maklouf on the obverse. The legend around the perimeter reads QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND. The reverse shows Chinese symbols of the denomination, date and country interspersed with the legend HONG KONG TWENTY CENTS. There was a proof coin struck in 1988. Hong Kong was ceded to Britain in 1842 following the First Opium War upon the Treaty of Nanjing. Prior to the war, China ...
?Image from: A.H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd . Victoria, Sovereign, 1860, curvy rounded 6 with bulbous top. 'Auction 79 8 May 2013'. Retrieved from https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=452&lot=1004
? Five Satang is equivalent to 1/20 Baht.
? Note a similar Ceylon set was produced in 1892 bearing the bust of Edward VII and the date 1892.
? The 1943 is one of the easiest dates in the series with a high mintage of almost 34 million pieces and a small number of mint rolls surfacing. The date is almost always struck without significant flaws allowing for higher grade mint state pieces but by this stage the obverse dies were already quite worn and as such often lack central detail. Soft obverse of a 1943 half penny Date set collectors will have no problem obtaining this date in circulated grades ...