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MALAYSIA: PENANG: British Colony, AE 1/2 cent, 1787, PCGS AU58

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - Asia & Middle-East Start Price:170.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
MALAYSIA: PENANG: British Colony, AE 1/2 cent, 1787, PCGS AU58
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PENANG: British Colony, AE 1/2 cent, 1787, KM-2.2, United East India Company bale mark // inscription in Jawi script jezirah perrinsa ab-wailis (Prince of Wales Island), an attractive nearly mint state example, PCGS graded AU58, ex Howard A. Daniel III Collection. Issued by the Prince of Wales Island colony under British East India Company rule (1786-1805). Cents and ½ cents were struck for Captain Francis Light at the Calcutta Mint the year after he founded the British colony of Penang. They were the second issue of copper coins for the island after the heavy undated uniface cents attributed to 1786. In Penang the standard coin was the Spanish American silver dollar and these coins were valued at 200 1/2 cent coins to the dollar.