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| 正面描述 | Diademed and draped bust of Queen Victoria facing left, her hair drawn up and gathered at the nape in a chignon, enclosed within an ornate Greek key-pattern inner border. The legend VICTORIA appears above the effigy in the upper arc, and QUEEN below, separated from the bust by the decorative border. The portrait reflects the young Victoria type, engraved in fine relief with delicate detail characteristic of Leonard Charles Wyon's work. The outer border features a beaded rim. |
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| 背面描述 | Central motif featuring a palm tree flanked by Sinhalese and Tamil script legends within a circle, with the denomination expressed as QUARTER CENT and the fractional value 1/4 appearing outside and around the central design. The date 1891 is incorporated within the legend, and the Sinhalese character සතය and Tamil character சதம் denote the fractional cent value. A beaded border surrounds the entire design, consistent with the fine milled pattern coinage style. |
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No 1/4 cent denomination was ever struck for circulation in Ceylon — the coin's purchasing power would have been effectively nil by 1891, making this a pattern in the truest sense: a proposal that went nowhere. Ceylon's fractional coinage needs in the late Victorian period were served by the 1/4 cent in copper, last issued in 1901, and there was no monetary argument for a gold equivalent at any point.
The Royal Mint occasionally produced gold patterns of low-denomination colonial types for exhibition or official presentation purposes, and this piece almost certainly falls into that category. Weight and fineness align it with a deliberate scaling exercise rather than any serious production proposal.