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Ceylon

 

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1886 Zanzibar, pysa




1886 was a milestone date for Zanzibar. Starting in 1884 after the Berlin Conference, European nations began the scramble for African territories. In August 1885 German warships entered the harbor of Zanzibar, and demanded the Sultan cede his mainland territories to Germany. The Sultan asked Britain to intercede. In 1886, Britain and Germany came to an agreement with Zanzibar whereby Britain would receive the territory of British East Africa (i.e. Kenya), and Germany would receive the territories of German East Africa (i.e. Tanganyika). The Sultan maintained control of a 10 mile wide strip of land along the coast of his former possessions. In 1890 Zanzibar would become a British Protectorate.

 

German East Africa, seller's pix, this one in the pipeline/on the way.

 

Uganda

 

(Kenya) 1888 Imperial East Africa Co., Mombasa, 1 pice, Calcutta mint, mm C/M



http://www.wikiwand.com/de/Imperial_British_East_Africa_Company (below translated from German to English by Google Chrome) The Imperial British East Africa Company ( IBEA ) was a commercial British company , … The IBEA was set up after the Berlin Congo Conference to encourage and control trade in East Africa's UK-accredited areas. The starting point of the operations was the port city of Mombasa on the East African coast. …

 

It seems that the names and borders invented by the colonizing powers kept changing fairly often. I assume the basic tribal groups and their traditional areas remained pretty much the same.

 

Belgian Congo

 

Angola

 

Namibia

 

Life has so overtaken me that I started this thread and have not contributed for almost 500 posts! So here is my attempt to catch up. Across the ocean to:

 

Back across the pond to the old South African Republic - ZAR

 

Nice looking coin. The type of coin that got me started on this hobby so many years ago.

 

Thanks. That is the prettiest ZAR coin I have, and the one below is the rarest, with a mintage of only 16,300.

Oops, I spoke too soon. I now see the 1894 penny mintage was 10,769. No wonder I paid so much for it.

 

Seychelles, 1948 5 cents

I can just squeeze by Madagascar to reach Seychelles in a straight line from South Africa.

 

I have one like your coin on my wish list. ... I have other priorities right now though.

 

Over to Jomo Kenyatta country, or now his son Uhuru runs the place...

 

On my way to Malaysia via India.
1835 (British) East India Company, rupee

 

(Malaysia) Straits Settlements 1873, 1 cent

 

If you haven't noticed by now. The sun never set on my collection.

 

Malaysia to the Philippines