East Africa 1925 shilling

photo courtesy Stack's Bowers

photo courtesy Stack's Bowers

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. This type is known from the London and Heaton mints. The coinage has been obsolete since the member colonies obtained independence in the early 1960's. This specimen was lot 1420 in Stack's Coin Galleries sale (Irvine, July 2011).

Recorded mintage: 28,405,000.

Specification: 7.77 g, 0.250 fine silver, .062 troy oz ASW, 27.8 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM 21.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Van Valen, Frank, and Vicken Yegparian, The July 2011 Coin Galleries Sale, Irvine, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, 2011.

Link to:

• 1924 shilling
• East Africa 1925 5 cents
• East Africa 1936-H 10 cents
• 1937-H shilling
• East Africa 1942 cent
• Coins and currency dated 1925
• return to coins of East Africa