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10 Cents - Edward VIII

Emittent East Africa Currency Board
Jahr 1936
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Aversbeschreibung The central round hole is flanked above by a crown and below by the denomination, all surrounded by a circular legend reading EDWARDVS VIII REX ET IND:IMP: and TEN CENTS in Latin script. The mintmark, when present, appears below the N of CENTS. A beaded border runs along the rim.
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Auflage 1936 - - 2,000,000
1936 - Proof -
1936 H - - 4,330,000
1936 H - Proof -
1936 KN - - 4,142,000
1936 KN - Proof -
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Edward VIII abdicated in December 1936 before his coronation ever took place, which left the East Africa Currency Board in an awkward position: coins struck in his name that year had no reigning monarch behind them by the time most reached circulation. The 1936 East African issues are among the very few coins anywhere in the British Empire to bear Edward's name, and production was limited precisely because the abdication crisis created immediate uncertainty about continuing the series.

Notably, Edward never approved a definitive effigy for colonial coinage — these pieces were issued under his style and title rather than a formally sanctioned portrait, a bureaucratic distinction that distinguishes them from standard imperial issues of the period.