1 Cash - Victoria Trial Strike

The Hong Kong 1 Cash denomination was ultimately never adopted for circulation. The colonial administration debated a low-value copper coinage in the early 1860s to address the fractional currency problem in the territory, but the 1 Cash proposal was abandoned — partly over concerns that the denomination was too close to existing Chinese cash coins already circulating freely. This piece is a trial strike from that abortive process, produced at the Royal Mint before the decision was made to proceed only with the Mil as the smallest circulating denomination.