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Hong Kong 1867 Half Dollar
香港一八六七年半圓銀幣
1866 saw the next and most important landmark in the history of Hong Kong's coinage with the opening in the Colony of a branch of the Royal Mint in Causeway Bay. A very auspicious start was made towards this end in 1866 when a range of five silver coins was struck, namely ten cents, twenty cents, half dollar and one dollar.The combined mintage for the half-dollars of 1866/67 is given as less than sixty thousand. From the numbers apparently extant today it is estimated that the ratio of these bearing the date 1867 was probably not more than one in twenty-five, and possibly considerably less.
一八六六年,英國皇家造幣廠在香港的銅鑼灣成立了分廠, 在第一年即鑄造五種不同的銀幣。它除了鑄造以前由倫敦供應的法定一毫銀幣之外,新增鑄了一元、半圓、一毫及五仙等銀幣。一八六六及一八六七兩年所鑄的半元,數目在六萬枚以下。現在流傳下來所有硬幣中, 刻 有一八六七的硬幣所估的比率是不超過廿五對一, 事實上可能更少。
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