Sarawak 1927-H 50 cents

Steve Album sale 16, lot 1578

This specimen was lot 1578 in Steve Album sale 16 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2013), where it sold for $100.30. The catalog description^[1] noted, "SARAWAK: Charles V. Brooke, rajah, 1917-1946, AR 50 cents, 1927-H, KM-19, surface hairlines, NGC graded EF details." 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 fifty cents last issued in 1906 and is the last date of the denomination.

Recorded mintage: 200,000 plus proofs.

Specification: 10.30 g, 0.500 fine silver, .165 troy oz ASW.

Catalog reference: KM 19.

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:

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