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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jimski, post: 2863295, member: 77373&quot;]Anchor coin, 1/16 dollar, silver 0.892 fine.&nbsp; 16mm.</p><p><br /></p><p>Struck in Britain for various British colonies.&nbsp; Listed in Krause World Coins under British West Indies. </p><p><br /></p><p>The 1822 coins were struck for use in Mauritius, but saw their widest distribution in Canada and the Caribbean colonies. It was designed as divisible parts of the Spanish dollar which was in use in the Caribbean at the time. The coinage was of Spanish dollar fineness (.892 silver). The coins were made in fractional values which refer to equivalent portions of the Spanish dollar, i.e., half Anchor dollar was equivalent to four reales, quarter dollar to two reales, eighth dollar to one real <u>and sixteenth dollar to a half real.</u></p><p>[ATTACH=full]682544[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]682545[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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