What's up plebs?
I am back again with another small treasure from my stash.
This is one of my most recent additions and came for around spot price in a bundle deal. It also comes from a place I had never heard of before, "Straits Settlements".
Straits Settlements was a group of British territories located in Southeast Asia, first established in 1826 as part of the territories controlled by the British East India Company. Eventually in 1946 the colony was dissolved as part of Britain's reorganisation of its Southeast Asian dependencies in the area. Feel free to click here for a historical run down by Wikipedia.
Anyways, let's move on and see some photo close ups:
As expected from a British colony coin, we have the king of the time, George V, on the obverse. The engraved text makes sure to remind the locals who is the real boss in case they get any strange ideas
GEORGE V KING AND EMPEROR OF INDIA
Ok let's check the reverse now:
Nothing special here either, the denomination, minting date and name of colony. Pretty standard stuff!
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS
10
TEN CENTS 1927
When it comes to silver, we have 2.71 g of 0.600 purity. That's about 1.6 of pure silver 🥈
And that pretty much sums today's coin!
Ok frens, this is it for today. As always, see you soon with more shiny 🤑
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