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2 Cents - Victoria
| Issuer | Mauritius |
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| Year | 1877-1897 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Crowned and draped bust of Queen Victoria facing left, engraved by Leonard Charles Wyon after the young head portrait. The Queen wears a small state crown set atop flowing hair tied with a ribbon at the nape of the neck. The circular legend reads VICTORIA to the left and QUEEN to the right, following the coin's periphery. The field is plain and the design is contained within a toothed border. |
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| Obverse lettering | VICTORIA QUEEN |
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Mauritius adopted a decimal currency system in 1877, replacing the older rupee-based fractional coinage, and this two-cent piece was among the first issues struck under that reformed structure. The series ran through the close of Victoria's reign with production handled entirely at the Royal Mint in London — the island had no local minting capability. Dies were shared across multiple British colonial bronze issues of the period, keeping production costs low across the empire's smaller dependencies.