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25 Cents - George V
| Issuer | Ceylon (1597-1972) |
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| Year | 1911-1917 |
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| Composition | Silver (.800) |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing draped and crowned effigy of King George V, engraved by Edgar Bertram MacKennal, depicted in robes of state with imperial crown. The legend GEORGE V KING AND EMPEROR OF INDIA. encircles the bust along the periphery in raised Latin characters. The field is plain, and a beaded border frames the entire design. |
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| Reverse script | Latin, Sinhala, Tamil |
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Ceylon's silver coinage of this period was struck at the Royal Mint in London, the island having no mint of its own. The .800 fine standard adopted here reflected a deliberate policy shift away from the higher-purity issues of the Victorian period — a cost-reduction measure applied across multiple British colonial dependencies in the early twentieth century.
Production ran through the First World War, when silver supplies were under pressure and colonial coinage budgets were scrutinized closely. KM#105 spans six years without major design revision.