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25 Cents - Edward VII
| Issuer | Government of Ceylon |
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| Year | 1902-1910 |
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| Diameter | 18 mm |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 1902 - - 400,000 1902 - Proof - 1903 - - 400,000 1903 - Proof - 1907 - - 120,000 1908 - - 400,000 1909 - - 400,000 1910 - - 800,000 |
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Ceylon's silver coinage of this period was struck at the Royal Mint in London, with the island still administered under the Colonial Office following the consolidation of power from the East India Company decades earlier. The .800 fineness was a deliberate step down from sterling, a policy applied across several British colonial issues of the era to reduce bullion costs without disrupting local confidence in the coinage.
Edward VII's reign produced only a short window for Ceylonese coinage — eight years, and he was dead by 1910.