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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 343477, member: 4703&quot;]I could have sworn that I responded to your prior posting about these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>At any rate 1 pice = 1/4 anna in this territory, formerly the capital of British East Africa and now part of the nation of Kenya.</p><p><br /></p><p>An &quot;H&quot; mintmark signifies the Birmingham Mint in England, and a &quot;C/M&quot; signifies the Calcutta Mint in British India.&nbsp; Mintage is listed at a combined 630,000 for KM#s 1.1, 1.2 and 1.5 with no specification of how many were produced at each mint.&nbsp; The combined 2,352,000 for the others was all produced at Birmingham.</p><p><br /></p><p>Without a picture, and information on the size, it is impossible to attribute your coins.&nbsp; There were five versions of the coin minted in bronze, all one-year issues dated 1888.</p><p><br /></p><p>KM#1.1 is 24.9mm and all the othrs are 25.4mm.</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>KM#1.1 is described as having small letters on both obverse and reverse.&nbsp; In the 2001 3rd Ed. 19th Century SCWC XF it is valued at $8.<br /> </li> <li>KM#1.2 is described as having medium letters on the obverse and reverse.&nbsp; Listed at $5 XF.<br /> </li> <li>KM#1.3 is described as having small letters on the obverse and medium letters on the reverse.&nbsp; Listed at $7 XF.<br /> </li> <li>KM#1.4 is described as having large letters without serifs and dots between words on the obverse and reverse.&nbsp; Listed at $4 XF.<br /> </li> <li>KM#1.5 is described as having medium&nbsp; letters on the obverse and reverse.&nbsp; Listed at $7 XF.</li> </ul><p><br /></p><p>The pictures in Krause are not clear enough to differentiate the letter sizes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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