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20 Cents - Victoria Trial Strike
| Issuer | Royal Mint (London) |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Engraver(s) | Leonard Charles Wyon |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed left-facing effigy of Queen Victoria, depicting her in the young portrait style as engraved by Leonard Charles Wyon. The bust is truncated at the shoulder and rendered in fine relief with delicate facial features. A circular legend surrounds the portrait reading VICTORIA QUEEN, with the lettering positioned along the outer rim of the field. |
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| Reverse description | Central design features a decorative rosette or floral motif enclosed within a beaded inner circle, surrounded by four Chinese characters reading 香港貳毫 (Hong Kong Twenty Cents) arranged in the cardinal positions. The outer legend reads HONG-KONG and TWENTY CENTS separated by ornamental stops, with the date 1873 positioned at the base. The reverse incorporates both Latin and Chinese inscriptions in a balanced, symmetrical layout characteristic of colonial Hong Kong coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | · HONG-KONG · 香 毫 · 貳 港 TWENTY CENTS 1873 |
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