5 Cents - King George V

正面描述	The central circular hole is flanked by two elegant curved elephant tusks sweeping around it in opposing arcs, creating a distinctive decorative motif. The numeral '5' appears prominently above the hole between the tusk tips. A raised inner ring encircles the central hole and tusk design, separating it from the outer field. The dentilated border frames the entire design, with the peripheral legend and date occupying the outer legend band.
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附加信息	East Africa's coinage in this period was administered through the East Africa Currency Board, established in 1905 to provide a unified monetary system across British East Africa, Uganda, and Zanzibar — replacing the chaotic mix of Indian rupees, German colonial marks, and local exchange commodities that preceded it. The First World War complicated supply dramatically: German East Africa shared a long border, and the East African campaign of 1914–1918 disrupted both colonial administration and the physical movement of coin shipments from the Birmingham Mint. Copper-nickel replaced the earlier silver-washed coinage partly on cost grounds, partly because the humid equatorial climate was punishing on less stable alloys.

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