East Africa and Uganda 1912 25 cents
This specimen was lot 23267 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (Newport Beach, CA, January 2021), where it sold for $168. The catalog description[1] noted, "BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 25 Cents, 1912. London Mint. PCGS MS-62 Gold Shield. Pop: 1, finest graded by PCGS. A boldly struck little coin with cartwheel luster and light gray tone." 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 mint and Heaton mint ("H") for 1912-14 and 1918. 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: 160,000.
Specification: 2.92 g, 0.800 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM-10.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The January 2021 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Oro del Nuevo Mundo and Matt Orsini Collections, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.
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