Tag: Five Cents

Collection Focus: The Ghost King (1936 East Africa 5 Cents – KN)

To round off this session, I am posting one of the most historically significant pieces in my collection. It represents the “Year of Three Kings,” the Abdication Crisis,…

Collection Focus: The Tusks of Empire (1937 East Africa 5 Cents)

Continuing the tour of the Heaton Mint’s global output, my collection lands in British East Africa (a currency union that covered modern-day Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika). This coin is a…

Collection Focus: The Company Coin (1928 North Borneo 5 Cents)

Having explored the “White Rajah” territory of Sarawak, my collection now moves slightly north to its neighbour: British North Borneo (modern-day Sabah). While Sarawak was ruled by the Brooke family,…