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5 Cents - Victoria
| Issuer | Hong Kong |
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| Year | 1866-1901 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Four large Chinese characters reading 香港五仙 (Hong Kong Five Cents) arranged centrally within a beaded inner circle, conveying the denomination and issuer in Chinese script. The English legend HONG KONG arcs across the top of the coin outside the beaded circle, while FIVE CENTS appears at the base, also outside the circle. The date is positioned to the lower right between the beaded circle and the outer toothed border. |
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| Mintage | 1866 - - 1,313,000 1866 - milled edge; Proof - 1866 - plain edge; Proof - 1867 - - 1867 - Proof - 1868 - - 1872 H - Heaton Mint; arabic `1` - 136,000 1872 H - Heaton Mint; roman `1` - 1872 H - Heaton Mint; with overdate variety `68` - 1873 - overdate variety exists - 387,000 1873 - Proof - 1873 H - Heaton Mint; overdate variety exists - 256,000 1874 H - Heaton Mint - 280,000 1875 H - Heaton Mint - 280,000 1875 H - Heaton Mint; Proof - 1876 H - Heaton Mint - 480,000 1877 H - Heaton Mint - 240,000 1879 - - 288,000 1880 H - Heaton Mint - 300,000 1881 - - 1881 - Proof - 1882 H - Heaton Mint - 600,000 1883 - - 550,000 1883 - Proof - 1883 H - Heaton Mint - 250,000 1883 H - Heaton Mint; Proof - 1884 - - 960,000 1884 - Proof - 1885 - - 3,120,000 1885 - Proof - 1886 - - 2,100,000 1887 - - 2,448,000 1888 - - 1889 - - 5,169,000 1889 - Proof - 1889 H - Heaton Mint - 2,100,000 1890 - - 1,500,000 1890 - Proof - 1890 H - Heaton Mint - 5,400,000 1890 H - Heaton Mint; Proof - 1891 - - 6,900,000 1891 H - Heaton Mint - 2,100,000 1892 - - 4,200,000 1892 - Proof - 1892 H - Heaton Mint - 1,200,000 1893 - - 3,000,000 1894 - - 4,600,000 1894 - Proof - 1895 - - 4,000,000 1897 - - 4,000,000 1898 - - 3,500,000 1899 - - 9,377,000 1900 - - 1,623,000 1900 H - Heaton Mint - 7,000,000 1901 - - 10,000,000 |
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