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1⁄24 Shilling - George V

Issuer States of Jersey
Year 1923-1926
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Value 1⁄24 Shilling (1⁄480)
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Reverse description The arms of Jersey — a shield bearing three golden leopards passant guardant in pale upon a red field — occupy the central area of the reverse, rendered in bold relief as designed by George Kruger Gray. The date is divided on either side of the shield, with '19' to the left and '26' to the right. The legend 'STATES · OF · JERSEY' arcs across the upper field, while the denomination 'ONE·TWENTY·FOURTH·OF·A·SHILLING' curves along the lower periphery. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border consistent with the obverse.
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Reverse lettering STATES · OF · JERSEY 19 26 ONE·TWENTYFOURTH·OF·A·SHILLING
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Jersey's coinage has always been denominated in fractions peculiar to the island — the shilling divided into 12 pence elsewhere, but into 13 sous in the old Jersey reckoning, making a 1/24 shilling essentially a half-sou. The series KM#13 continued a local tradition dating to the 1840s rather than conforming to British decimal logic.

Production across the 1923–1926 window was handled by the Heaton Mint in Birmingham, as the Royal Mint had little interest in small-denomination colonial bronze of this type during the postwar period.

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