Hong Kong 1873-H 10 cents
This specimen was lot 782 in Stephen Album sale 47 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2023), where it sold for $360. The catalog description[1] noted, "HONG KONG: Victoria, 1841-1901, AR 10 cents, 1873-H, faint surface hairlines, AU." The British set up a mint in Hong Kong in 1866 which struck mils through dollars. It does not seem to have been a success as the mint was closed in 1868. In 1872, Hong Kong began receiving ten cent coins from the Heaton mint and in 1869 from the Royal mint. This type was minted steadily until the queen's death in 1901 and many dates are common in all grades. This "Gothic" bust of the queen was used on the cent and ten cents and the more conventional bare bust on the five, twenty and fifty cents.
Recorded mintage: 128,000, a better date.
Specification: 2.71 g, 0.800 fine silver, .069 troy oz ASW, 17.8 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-6.3; Mars-C18.
- Illustrated Catalog of Hong Kong Currency, Hong Kong: Mars Numismatic Co., 2012.
- 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 47, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2023.
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