1 Cent - Edward VII

The aluminium cents issued for British East Africa under Edward VII were produced at the King's Norton Metal Company in Birmingham, not at a Royal Mint facility — a detail that distinguishes them from most colonial coinage of the period. King's Norton had a long history of supplying coinage blanks and struck coins to British territories, and the East Africa contract fell within their established colonial work. The 1907–1908 window is narrow; production ended well before Edward's death in 1910, making this a short-run type within an already minor series.