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| 背面描述 | Central device features the shield of Jersey displaying three passant guardant leopards (lions) arranged in pale, rendered in fine relief on a lined field. The date 1877 is divided across the field flanking the upper portion of the shield. The circular legend STATES OF JERSEY · ONE 48TH OF A SHILLING · runs around the periphery, with the denomination inscription reading continuously from left to right. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border consistent with the obverse. |
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| 铸造量 | 1877 H - - 288,000 |
| 附加信息 |
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.