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Message:: [QUOTE="Free Citizen, post: 21367, member: 1570"]Here is another. Another coin that I cleaned with mixed success is a 1 cent Malaya Currency dated 1945. I guess this isn't very rare but it has on the face King George VI as Emperor. I would think the title is befitting since the British Empire stretched to Far East Hong Kong. I have been hunting for a half cent Malaya coin but no such luck. However, there was a seller who kept a quarter cent coin. I was not prepared to pay him the price he was willing to part it for. He may look like a coolie but he sure knows the Numismatic market. My Father use to tell me that during his school days all he took to school was 1 cent. And with that he could buy a meal and a coke and still have change. Meals during pre-war Malaya ranged from a quarter to half cent. And a coke went for a quarter cent. Boy, how inflation has run out of control. Again, these aren't very good images. I think I will post no more pics until I get a better camera.[/QUOTE]