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1 Dollar - Victoria Trial Strike
| Issuer | Hong Kong |
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| Year | 1863-1864 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Draped and crowned effigy of Queen Victoria facing left, rendered in high relief after the style associated with William Wyon. The Queen wears a small crown set atop her hair, which is gathered and dressed close to the head. The legend VICTORIA QUEEN runs along the upper periphery in Latin script. The truncation of the bust is visible at the lower field, and the overall portrait reflects the mature Wyon tradition used on colonial coinage of the 1860s. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field features large Chinese characters reading 香港一仙 (Hong Kong One Cent) arranged within a beaded inner circle, surrounded by a floral and foliate decorative border. The outer legend reads .HONG-KONG. along the upper arc and ONE DOLLAR along the lower arc, with the date 1863 positioned at the lower right between the beaded and outer borders. The overall design combines Western typographic conventions with Chinese calligraphic characters, reflecting the bilingual character of Hong Kong colonial coinage of this period. |
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