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1 Cash - Victoria Trial Strike
| Uitgever | Royal Mint |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1863 |
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| Gewicht | 0.98 g |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Plain copper field surrounding a central square frame enclosing a round hole, a design deliberately evoking traditional Chinese cash coinage. The legend 'HONG-KONG' arcs across the upper portion of the field in raised Latin capitals, separated by a hyphen, while the denomination 'ONE CASH' curves along the lower portion, flanked on each side by a raised dot serving as a stop. The overall design is spare and typographic, with no effigy of the monarch, reflecting the experimental nature of this trial strike intended to assess the suitability of a holed coinage for Hong Kong. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Plain copper field centred on a square raised frame surrounding a round central hole, closely mirroring the traditional form of Chinese cash coins. Four large Chinese characters in bold, brushwork-style relief are disposed around the central aperture in the conventional four-directional arrangement: 香 (above), 港 (below), 一 (right), and 文 (left), together reading 香港一文 — 'Hong Kong One Cash'. The design is uncluttered, with no additional ornament or border devices, emphasising the purely functional and culturally adapted character of this pattern piece. |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
In the early 1860s, the Royal Mint was actively exploring a coinage system for India that would replace the chaotic patchwork of presidency and princely issues still circulating across the subcontinent. This trial strike was part of that exercise — pattern pieces submitted for official consideration, never approved for circulation. The two KM pattern numbers reflect variants struck in the same exploratory batch, almost certainly differing in die alignment or edge treatment rather than any substantive design change.
The cash denomination itself was already archaic by 1863, a unit of account associated with Madras presidency coinage that the colonial administration was moving to phase out entirely in favor of a unified rupee-anna-pice structure.