Sarawak 1920-H 5 cents KM-14
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This specimen was lot 72753 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, October 2019), where it sold for $1,080. The catalog description[1] noted, "SARAWAK. Copper-Nickel 5 Cents, 1920-H. Heaton Mint. NGC MS-63. An exceptional offering of the type, this denomination comes in both silver and copper-nickel varieties, this being the latter. An appealing piece, offering rose-gold toning throughout, and with just three others graded finer in the NGC census." This type was struck in copper-nickel in 1920 and 1927. A billon (.400 fine silver) five cents was also struck in 1920 and is much scarcer.
Recorded mintage: 400,000 plus 100,000 of KM 13.
Specification: copper-nickel.
Catalog reference: KM-14.
- 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 October 2019 Collector's Choice Sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2019.
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