East Africa and Uganda 1910-H 25 cents
This specimen was lot 74644 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2024), where it sold for $105. The catalog description[1] noted, "EAST AFRICA. 25 Cents, 1910-H. Birmingham (Heaton) Mint. Edward VII. PCGS MS-63. With swathes of olives and golds on the obverse and a sea of iridescent blues and magentas across the reverse, this Choice issue is undoubtedly enticing in its originality. From the Richard Margolis Collection." 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. The diameter and module matched the quarter rupee of India, tho the fineness was lower.
Recorded mintage: 200,000.
Specification: 2.91 g, 0.800 fine silver, 17.8 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-3.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, October 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, featuring the S.P. Rutherford Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.
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