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10 Cents - Victoria Trial Strike
| Issuer | Hong Kong |
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| Year | 1862 |
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| Weight | 2.7 g |
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| Obverse lettering | 香 毫 一 港 (Translation: Hong Kong Ten Cents) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Hong Kong's decimal coinage system was only formalized under the 1862 Currency Ordinance, and the trial strikes produced that year represent the colonial government's first serious attempt to standardize a fractional silver coinage for a port economy still saturated with chopped Spanish and Mexican dollars. The Royal Mint in London produced multiple pattern submissions before the circulating type was approved — KM#Pn55 and Pn56 represent distinct submissions from that selection process, differing in die details.
The .800 fineness chosen deliberately undercut the purity of competing trade silver to discourage melting for bullion.