British North Borneo 1938-H 5 cents

Steve Album sale 30, lot 726

British North Borneo is today known as Sabah and is a state of Malaysia. In the nineteenth century, half cents and cents were issued for the colony from the Heaton Mint. Five cent pieces were issued intermittently in 1903, 1920-21, 1927-28, 1938-41 and are fairly common in circulated condition. This specimen was lot 726 in Stephen Album sale 30 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2018), where it sold for $188. The catalog description^[1] noted, "BRITISH NORTH BORNEO: 5 cents, 1938-H, a wonderful example! NGC graded MS66."

Recorded mintage: 500,000.

Specification: copper-nickel.

Catalog reference: KM-5.

Sources:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 30, featuring the George Anderson Collection of Tibetan Coins, the Dr. John W. Lund Collection of Swedish Coins and the Mike Edwards Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.

Links:

• 1928-H 5 cents
• 1929-H 25 cents
• 1938-H cent
• 1940-H 5 cents
• Coins and currency dated 1938
• return to coins of British North Borneo