This is a coin that I paid quite high but thought this looks quite unusual. In between the letter "Hong" Kong and "One" cent, you can see the letter "ten" which looks like a cross. This exists on the a former Chinese 10 cash coin struck in 1905, 1906. I am not aware of such coins overstruck on 10 cash coin - were these struck in China or in the UK? Got a feeling that it could be a contempory counterfeit.
there are no recorded examples of this type of overstrike, as all hong kong coins were struck at the royal mint in london so my educated guess is that it is a counterfeit...................
Weren't some Hong Kong coins struck locally before the equipment was sold off to Osaka Mint moneyer12? No idea if they did attempt to strike more coins later locally.
very early on in the colonies numismatic history, but in this case all were minted in london, and if any were minted locally they would have had to have a license from the uk government to issue their own coins. and from my own knowledge of the coinage of hong kong i know, no such license was issued.... the coins actually minted in hong kong were the mil coins prior to the introduction of the dollar and cent system...
