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1/2 Cent - Charles V. Brooke Rajah
| Issuer | Government of Sarawak |
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| Year | 1933 |
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| Value | 1/2 Cent (0.005) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field features the denomination inscription 'HALF CENT' in two lines of bold raised serif capitals, enclosed within a symmetrical wreath of olive branches tied at the base with a ribbon bow. The Heaton mint mark 'H' appears immediately below the wreath knot. The legend 'SARAWAK' arcs along the upper periphery, and the date '1933' is inscribed in large numerals along the lower periphery outside the wreath. The design is framed by a continuous toothed inner border. |
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Charles Vyner Brooke, the third and final White Rajah of Sarawak, issued this piece during a period when the territory remained one of the last privately governed colonial states on earth — a personal fiefdom established by his great-uncle James Brooke in 1841 after suppressing a local rebellion and receiving the land as a grant from the Sultan of Brunei. The 1933 date places it squarely in the Depression era, when copper coinage was cheap to produce and fractions still had genuine purchasing power in rural Sarawak's bazaar economy.
Vyner would cede the territory to the British Crown in 1946, ending over a century of Brooke family rule and making this among the later issues of an issuing authority that would simply cease to exist.