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1 Cent - Victoria
| Issuer | British Honduras (1862-1973) |
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| Year | 1885-1894 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed and diademed effigy of Queen Victoria facing left, her hair elaborately dressed and gathered at the nape with a ribbon bow, wearing a jewelled crown. The legend VICTORIA is inscribed along the left periphery and QUEEN along the right, both reading upward. The field is plain and the design is contained within a toothed border. |
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| Obverse lettering | VICTORIA QUEEN |
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British Honduras occupied an awkward administrative position throughout the Victorian period — nominally a colony from 1862 but governed under arrangements contested by Guatemala, which refused to recognize British sovereignty over the territory for over a century. The cent series of this era was minted at the Royal Mint in London, as the colony had no local striking capacity. KM#6 spans a decade during which the mahogany trade dominated the colonial economy almost entirely, with coinage needs remaining modest enough that mintages across the series were correspondingly small.