Sarawak 1927-H 20 cents

Steve Album sale 16, lot 1576

This specimen was lot 1576 in Steve Album sale 16 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2013), where it sold for $118. The catalog description^[1] noted, "SARAWAK: Charles V. Brooke, rajah, 1917-1946, AR 20 cents, 1927-H, one year type, surface hairlines, EF." Sarawak, a British colony on the northwest coast of Borneo, was ruled by a dynasty of white rajahs from 1841 to 1946. This type was issued 1927 only from Heaton. It is a reduced weight version of the billon twenty cents issued in 1920 and is the last date of the denomination.

Recorded mintage: 250,000 plus proofs.

Specification: 5.08 g, 0.400 fine silver, .065 troy oz ASW.

Catalog reference: KM 17a.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen. Stephen Album Auction 16, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, 2013.

Link to:

• 1915-H 20 cents
• 1920-H 10 cents
• 1927-H cent
• 1927-H 50 cents
• Coins and currency dated 1927
• return to coins of Sarawak