1 Pice - Victoria East Africa Protectorate

The East Africa Protectorate was a administrative creation of the Imperial British East Africa Company, which surrendered its charter to the Crown in 1895. These pice were among the first coins struck specifically for the territory, issued through the Heaton Mint in Birmingham rather than the Royal Mint. The denomination itself was borrowed directly from the Indian monetary system, reflecting the dominant commercial influence of Indian traders along the East African coast and the practical reality that Indian rupees already circulated freely in the region.

The series ran only two years before monetary reforms tied the territory's currency more formally to the Indian rupee structure.