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Hong Kong Victoria

1872/68-H  Twenty Cent reverse 1872/68-H  Twenty Cent obverse

1872/68-H Twenty Cent

Mintage:64,000
Figure shared with:
1872-H
Mint:Heaton Birmingham Monarch:Victoria Reverse Designer:Leonard Wyon Obverse Designer:William Wyon Size:23mm Weight:5.43g Edge:Milled Composition:80% Silver
20% Copper

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The Hong Kong twenty cent was first struck at the new Hong Kong mint in 1866. The mint only produced the coin for two years before closing with great losses, after this it was struck at the Royal Mint in London and the Heaton Mint in Birmingham. The obverse features the Leonard Wyon effigy of Queen Victoria along with the legend QUEEN VICTORIA. The reverse has the legend HONG KONG TWENTY CENTS 1866 with an inner circle containing Chinese characters depicting the date, denomination and country of origin.

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 shillings two pence. The Government eventually concluded that their efforts to introduce the sterling coinage was unsuccessful in overcoming the strong local support of the Spanish silver dollar. The British Government made the decision, as it had also done in Canada, that it could not displace the local currency and the Royal Mint in London commenced the issue of special subsidiary coinage to run alongside the local dollar currency.

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