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Philippines
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I just acquired by chance, an 1875 1cent copper 28.5mm diameter coin, which has: OBV - "Queen Victoria" and a side view of the Queen and REV - 1 cent 1875 Straits Settlements" For which country is this? Thanks!  Moved to World Coin forum -Sap |
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United States
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Singapore I think. I am sure others will come in and give more details.
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United States
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Singapore is one of them, yep. From Wikipedia: The Straits Settlements were a group of British territories located in Southeast Asia. Originally established in 1826 as part of the territories controlled by the British East India Company, the Straits Settlements came under direct British control as a crown colony on April 1, 1867. The colony was dissolved as part of the British reorganisation of its South-East Asian dependencies following the end of the Second World War. The Straits Settlements consisted of the individual settlements of Malacca, Penang (also known as Prince of Wales Island), and Singapore, as well as (from 1907) Labuan. With the exception of Singapore, these territories now form a part of Malaysia. Full article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straits_Settlements |
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Australia
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the "Straits" were the Straits of Malacca, now spelled Melaka.
The "settlements" were British trading outposts. But plenty of other European trading nations passed through, over several centuries.
I've spent a bit of time in that part of the world, and I must say that the food is unbelievably good.
Peter in Oz
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United States
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Look on the Internet in "Don's World Coin Gallery" look under Malaysia that is were I found my straits settlement coins good photos.
http://(131231) Not Allowed - Auto-Removed /countries/coine.php?image=img11/217-9&desc=Straits%20Settlements%20km9%201%20Cent%20(1872-1883)%20copper-plain%20edge&query=Straits%20km%209
Hope this helps! This will take you straight to the picture.
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United States
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By the way Nic, in my collections I have a helmet liner full worth of sea shells that were scooped up when the first wave hit the beach the day the Americans landed on Leyte. Dear old Dad.....lost him in 2005. What a guy. 3 bronze with arrowhead and a silver. WWII and Korea. Want a couple? If you do let me know how to get them to you.Clark
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 Philippines
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Big thanks Clark Kent for the link, that pic is exactly the coin I have, three of them, the price of US$50 as starting bid just about floored me, when I mentioned by "chance", I got them last saturday from a local coin exhibit together with a handful of wheat lincolns & 1960's world coins from a big clay bowl of worldcoins (USA lincoln is considered foreign coins here)at 5pesos each that's US 10cents for the 1875 1cent grade. But when I had them in my hand, they were unreadable, all black with just the copper color showing, unusual diameter size for a copper tipped me off to something, turned out VG8 after cleaning. Thanks all for the info, it just made my day. |
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Philippines
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Thanks Clark Kent for that nice gesture, but will have to take an indefinite rain check on that. As a seashell collector, the experience of the many difficulties when sending out abroad or recieving seashells, even within Asia only, would deter any collector. and receiving rare shells broken in transit is just about horrible Looking forward instead to trading coins, when you hit 50 posts |
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