East Africa 1899 pice
This specimen was lot 1174 in Stephen Album sale 27 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2017), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE: Victoria, 1895-1901, AE pice, 1899. NGC graded MS62 RB." East Africa was an administrative grouping of the British colonies of Kenya, Uganda and British Somaliland. Tanganyika was added in 1919 after it was seized from the Germans. The original currency system was 100 cents = one florin (2 shillings). In 1922, this was changed to 100 cents = 1 shilling. In 1920 Uganda was dropped from the title on the reverse. The coinage has been obsolete since the member colonies obtained independence in the early 1960's. This type of 1897-99 was probably intended to be a division of the rupee. In India, 64 pie = one rupee.
Recorded mintage: 3,200,000.
Specification: bronze.
Catalog reference: KM-1.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 27, featuring the Dr. Paul Stevens Collection of Indian Coins, Part VI, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2016.
Link to:
- East Africa 1898 pice
- East Africa and Uganda 1906 25 cents
- Coins and currency dated 1899
- return to coins of British East Africa