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4 Pence - Victoria 2nd portrait, Colonial issue
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 1888 |
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| Value | 4 Pence (1⁄60) |
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| Obverse description | Effigy of Queen Victoria facing left, wearing a small crown and widow's veil, rendered in the Jubilee Head portrait introduced in 1887 and modelled by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm. The truncation of the bust is draped, and the portrait is set within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding legend reads VICTORIA D:G: BRITANNIAR: REGINA F:D:, disposed in a continuous arc around the effigy. |
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| Obverse lettering | VICTORIA D:G: BRITANNIAR: REGINA F:D: (Translation: Victoria by the Grace of God Queen of Britain Defender of the Faith) |
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The colonial fourpence — the "joey," as it was commonly called — survived in British Guiana and other Caribbean territories long after it had effectively disappeared from everyday use in Britain itself. Demand from those colonies kept the denomination alive through the 1880s when it would otherwise have been discontinued entirely. The Royal Mint produced these specifically for colonial remittance, not domestic circulation.
Victoria's second portrait, modeled by Joseph Edgar Boehm and engraved by Leonard Charles Wyon, replaced the earlier Wyon young-head design from 1895 onward on most denominations — but the fourpence carried it from 1888.