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1 Stiver
| Issuer | Guyana |
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| Year | 1838 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | A draped allegorical female figure, representing Commerce or Britannia, seated facing right upon a platform or plinth, extending her right arm forward and holding a olive branch or spray of foliage, while her left hand rests on a rudder or anchor at her side. The date 1838 appears in the lower exergue. The arc legend TRADE & NAVIGATION curves around the upper periphery, with a branch element positioned close to the ampersand, within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse description | The denomination ONE STIVER appears in two lines at the centre of the field, enclosed within a raised inner circle. The circular legend PURE COPPER PREFERABLE TO PAPER, with a mid-point stop, runs around the outer field between the inner circle and a beaded border, the inscription oriented so as to read correctly from the bottom of the coin upward on the left side. |
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British Guiana's 1838 stiver issues were emergency plantation tokens, not government coinage — produced to address a chronic shortage of small change in the colony following emancipation, when the sudden shift to a wage economy created immediate demand for low-denomination currency that London was slow to supply. The KM#Tn2 attribution reflects its token status; these pieces circulated under private or colonial mercantile authority rather than Crown issue.