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| 表面の説明 | Laureate and draped young bust of Queen Victoria facing left, her hair elaborately dressed and bound with a wreath of laurel, with a large coiled chignon at the rear. The peripheral legend reads VICTORIA D:G: BRITANNIAR: REGINA F:D: with the date 1855 positioned in the lower exergual area. The effigy, engraved by Leonard Charles Wyon, exhibits fine high-relief modelling characteristic of mid-Victorian pattern coinage. A beaded border surrounds the entire design. |
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| 鋳造数 | 1855 |
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The Sydney Mint opened in 1855 as the first branch of the Royal Mint outside Britain, established specifically to convert the flood of New South Wales gold rush bullion into sterling coinage locally rather than shipping raw metal to London. Before full production began, a handful of pattern pieces were struck to test dies and demonstrate fitness for purpose to Colonial and British Treasury officials. KM#Pn4 is among those trial strikings — produced in vanishingly small numbers, never released for circulation, and surviving today in single-digit quantities across institutional and private collections.