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1 Rixdollar - George IV
| Issuer | British Ceylon (Colonial Administration) |
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| Year | 1821 |
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| Currency | Rixdollar (1796-1828) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of King George IV facing left, rendered in high relief after the design of Benedetto Pistrucci, whose engraver's initials 'B.P.' appear below the truncation. The hair is elaborately styled with flowing curls beneath the laurel wreath, whose ribbons trail behind the neck. The Latin legend encircles the effigy along the periphery of the field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Rixdollar was a Dutch colonial currency inherited by Britain when Ceylon was ceded under the 1815 Treaty of Vienna's broader territorial settlements, and by 1821 it was already a currency on its way out. The British administration formally demonetized the Rixdollar in 1828, replacing it with sterling-based coinage — making this a transitional issue produced with full knowledge that the denomination had fewer than a decade left in circulation.
The .892 fineness departs slightly from standard sterling, a holdover specification from the Dutch monetary tradition the British chose not to immediately reform.