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1 Cent - Victoria
| Issuer | Straits Settlements |
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| Year | 1884-1886 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1845-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | VICTORIA QUEEN |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Straits Settlements operated as a British Crown Colony administered directly from London after 1867, having been transferred from the East India Company. Coinage for the colony was struck at the Royal Mint in London, with bronze cents serving the low-denomination needs of a port economy where small transactions — particularly in Singapore's markets — demanded reliable fractional currency that neither Indian nor Chinese merchant coinage could consistently supply.
KM#9a distinguishes this short three-year emission from adjacent types by its specific bronze alloy specification, a detail worth noting for authentication given the number of contemporary counterfeits produced locally in tin-rich Southeast Asia.