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The Half Cent series was struck, much like the other copper issues starting in 1872 at the Heaton mint in Birmingham with a large initial mintage of 5.6 million to satisfy the initial demand for smaller circulating currency for the newly founded colony.
The issue features a partitioned circular reverse with the legend STRAITS SETTLEMENTS HALF CENT in the outer edge followed by the date and 1/2 in the middle and an obverse with the effigy of Queen Victoria facing to the left and the legend QUEEN VICTORIA.
Despite its reasonable high mintage of close to 3 million, the 1883 is actually quite a tough date, particularly in high grades where it was very underrated until around 2014 when its value started to rise. Despite this it's available in mint state and with original mint brilliance making it a reasonable, if not affordable type coin.
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