? obverse legend QUEEN VICTORIA reverse legend HONG KONG TEN CENTS denomination The official currency of Hong Kong was the British Pound although it was not well received by the population as the traders were used to the Chinese system of using the weight of silver for their transactions. It was the policy of the British Government to introduce sterling silver coinage to their colonies since 1825 and the Spanish and Mexican eight Reales became legal tender and set at a value of four ...
? The Silver Jubilee fifty cent was issued to commemorate 25 years since the ascension of her majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. The reverse features 25 crowns around the circumference and the words SILVER JUBILEE 50 CENTS around the inner circle. The obverse features her majesty Queen Elizabeth II.Like most commemorative issues, the coin was often hoarded and as a result is quite common in mint state and still on occasion found in circulation today with its original mint lustre intact. The tails ...
? The 1912 Shilling was the second year in the George V series and was struck at the Royal Mint in London to a mintage of 1,000,000. This relatively low mintage makes the piece quite a challenge to obtain in any grade. In mint-state the piece often exhibits hairlines due to the distribution process via ship from the United Kingdom which makes the type very hard to obtain beyond MS64. In 1912 this time the price of silver was relatively low meaning which meant that the production ...
? The reverse ram design continued into this type right up until the introduction of decimal currency with the conclusion of the shilling series in 1963. This type features a slightly reworded obverse legend, ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA F:D , due to the public outcry that the previous type omitted FIDEI DEF .Several mint rolls have appeared from all dates in the 1960s, a few 1959 rolls, and a substantial hoard of 1957 shillings has turned up . All other dates are quite ...
? The 1856 Sydney Mint Half Sovereign is the only affordable date of the Type I series with a sizable mintage of 478,000. It is readily available in lower grades with a number of AU or better graded pieces surfacing from the India hoard and from the Reserve Bank of Australia holdings . Due to these hoards of genuinely high grade pieces, the 1856 has not appreciated in value over the past decade with many present-day realisations of high grade pieces inline ...