? On the first of April 1867 the Straits Settlements became a Crown Colony but it wasn't until 1871 that her first coins were struck with the copper being struck in 1872. The first ten cent was struck at the Royal mint in London. The reverse design features a partitioned ring design with 10 in the inner circle with the legend, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. TEN CENTS with the date following. The obverse features the young head portrait of Queen Victoria as designed by William Wyon.While a date set ...
? The Type II ten cent was issued from 1985 up until 1998 and featured the new Raphael Maklouf portrait of her majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse, with Stuart Devlin's superb lyrebird design on the reverse. Devlin's initials can be found near the foot of the lyrebird. The series was struck exclusively at the Royal Australian Mint in a cupro-nickel alloy with an additional silver proof produced in 1991 as part of the year's Masterpieces in Silver set. ...
? James Brooke was born in India and served in the Bengal Army. When he was wounded, he resigned his commission, bought a 142 ton schooner and sailed to the Malay Archipelago. It was here that he met Pangeran Muda Hashim and together, they crushed a rebellion which gave the throne back to the Sultan of Brunei. The Sultan subsequently decided to give Brooke the Sarawak governor position as reward for his assistance. He was officially appointed as Rajah of Sarawak in 1842 by Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien ...
?Image from: Heritage Auctions . Edward VII Gold Specimen Sovereign 1908-C. '2010 January Signature World Coin Auction #3008'. Retrieved from https://coins.ha.com/itm/canada/world-coins/canada-edward-vii-gold-specimen-sovereign-1908-c-/a/3008-20794.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515
? The 1911 penny marks the first copper coin struck for the Commonwealth of Australia, 10 years after Federation. It was produced at the Royal mint, London as the Australian mints were not yet ready to produce copper coins. Being the first year of Australian coinage, the mintage had to be high at 3.7 million to ensure that demand for circulating coinage would be met with sufficient supply. Consequently the 1911 is one of the more common dates of the series despite being the earliest. ...