Hong Kong 1926 cent
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This specimen was lot 72595 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, June 2020), where it sold for $80. The catalog description[1] noted, "HONG KONG. Cent, 1926. London Mint. PCGS MS-63 Red Brown Gold Shield. A mostly brown example, this specimen offers some mint red as one approaches the peripheries." Hong Kong was seized by the British from China in 1842 and held by them until its return in 1997. In Hong Kong, 100 cents = one dollar; sterling coinage was never used there. This type was struck 1919, 1923-26.
Recorded mintage: 2,500,000 plus proofs.
Specification: 7.50 g, bronze, 27.7 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM 16; Mars-C5.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Illustrated Catalog of Hong Kong Currency, Hong Kong: Mars Numismatic Co., 2012.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The June 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.
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