20 Cents Pattern

Saint Helena never adopted a decimal coinage reform, which is precisely why this piece exists only as a pattern. The 2004 series of decimal trial strikes was produced to explore a potential currency overhaul that would bring the island's coinage in line with modern Commonwealth practice — a reform that was ultimately shelved. Nordic gold, the copper-aluminum-zinc-tin alloy developed by the Swedish company Nordic Brass AB in the 1990s, was by 2004 the preferred specification for new decimal low-denomination trials across several small-issue territories.