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1 Pound - Elizabeth II Chinese Trade Dollar
| Issuer | Saint Helena |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Value | 1 Pound |
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| Obverse lettering | QUEEN ELIZABETH II · ST.HELENA · ONE POUND · 2021 · |
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| Reverse lettering | TRADE DOLLAR |
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The Chinese Trade Dollar it references was a British colonial issue struck from 1895 at the Bombay and later the London and Calcutta mints, designed specifically to compete with the Mexican peso and American Trade Dollar in the treaty ports of China. British merchants had long complained that no imperial coin commanded reliable acceptance in southern Chinese markets, where silver content was weighed rather than trusted by denomination. The original trade dollar was demonetized in the UK in 1937.
Saint Helena's authority to issue legal tender commemoratives derives from its status as a British Overseas Territory, a distinction that became administratively significant after the island's governance was transferred from the East India Company to the Crown in 1834.