This has two interesting aspects to it and I’d love see your different examples of either one. It’s a 1 year type from an area with limited coinage and it’s one of the rare coins where the book value is lower than real world value.
I have a few of the East Africa Company issued coins. They were with a large lot of world coins I purchased a while back. Quite the oddity.
I like it, and would cheerfully add one to my collection. I have vivid childhood memories of the harbor in Mombasa. We sailed to Africa aboard a Greek freighter in '72, and Mombasa was our final port of disembarkation. They loaded us and all our worldly possessions (we moved to East Africa for a year) into these rickety little boats which sank so low into the water that the waves were lapping only about a foot below the gunwales! It was kind of scary. But memorable. It was everything you'd imagine about disembarking from a freighter into a colorful, exotic, bustling, Third World port city. Though it wasn't always fun at the time, I'm now glad I had an unconventional, gypsy-ish sort of childhood.
Trust me, it’s better to get all that stuff outta the way when you’re young, and then settle down into boring conventionality. At least as far as I’m concerned. Moving to a Third World country on another continent? Living aboard boats? Owning a boat? My childhood and parents’ experiences cured me of all those whims. Sure, I still like to daydream, but I prefer settled, secure normality for my daily existence.
Here’s another 1 year type, mintage of 128,000. (Should have mentioned the Mombasa rupee has a mintage of 94,000). 1894 British Honduras 5 cents
I was looking around at the Mombasa pice thinking I should get one of them to go with the rupee. Apparently I’ve had that thought before. Higher mintage of 2.35 million but another 1-year type.
