Catalog
1 Shilling - George V
| Issuer | East African Currency Board |
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| Year | 1921-1925 |
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| Value | 1 Shilling |
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| Reverse description | Central oval cartouche, flanked by decorative foliate scrollwork and two small diamond-shaped ornaments, enclosing a lion passant walking left before a mountainous landscape with Mount Kenya visible in the background and sparse savanna vegetation in the foreground. The legend EAST AFRICA arcs across the upper periphery outside the cartouche, while the denomination 1 SHILLING and the date appear in the lower field, the numeral 1 above the word SHILLING and the four-digit date below, all separated from the central device by a beaded inner border. The composition evokes the colonial iconography of British East Africa, blending imperial heraldic tradition with an African natural setting. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 1921 - - 6,141,000 1921 H - - 4,240,000 1922 - - 18,858,000 1922 H - - 20,052,000 1923 - - 4,000,000 1924 - - 44,604,000 1925 - - 28,405,000 1925 - Proof - |
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