10 Cents - Edward VII

Hong Kong's silver subsidiary coinage of this period was struck at the Royal Mint in London, a arrangement that persisted until the opening of the Hong Kong branch mint in 1866 and resumed after its closure in 1868. The .800 fineness was a deliberate compromise — fine enough to resist counterfeiting, debased enough to prevent the coins from being hoarded or melted at prevailing silver prices in southern China, where subsidiary silver circulated alongside a bewildering mix of foreign trade dollars and local cash.

Edward VII's reign produced only four years of this denomination before the type was superseded, keeping total mintage figures modest across the run.