Katalog
| Emittent | States of Jersey |
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| Jahr | 1877 |
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| Stempelschneider | Leonard Charles Wyon |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Left-facing diademed and draped bust of Queen Victoria, engraved in the young head portrait style by Leonard Charles Wyon. The hair is elaborately styled with a beaded diadem across the top, loose flowing waves falling behind the ear, and a coiled chignon at the nape of the neck. A small mintmark 'H' (for Heaton, Birmingham) appears at the base of the bust truncation, flanked by a small star. The circular legend reads VICTORIA D . G . BRITANNIAR . REGINA F . D around the periphery, enclosed within a continuous beaded border. |
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| Averslegende | VICTORIA D . G. BRITANNIAR . REGINA F . D |
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| Zusätzliche Informationen |
Jersey's fractional coinage existed largely to serve the island's own reckoning system, which divided the shilling into 26 pence rather than the 12 used in Britain — a legacy of the livre tournois and the island's Norman monetary heritage. The 1/48 shilling denomination was unique to Jersey and had no direct equivalent anywhere in the British Isles. By 1877, the island had been issuing bronze coinage under Victoria for over two decades, and the series was well-established if modestly circulated. KM#6 represents the third major issue of this denomination, following earlier strikes of 1861 and 1866.