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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;7Jags, post: 17529690, member: 78719&quot;]A quick reprisal:</p><p>Evidently excepting a possible few holdbacks at the Royal Mint, essentially the entire mintage of the DRITANNIAR 6 pences were sent to Cyprus to pay for expenses of the &quot;newly acquired&quot; colony there - it was seized from the Turks (who evidently maintained superficial control until 1914 and the complete takeover). Some of those expenses were supposedly to cover leftover bills and debts left by the departing Ottomans. What is unclear is whether other 6 pence coins were also sent there &amp; have only heard of the DRITANNIAR coins being sent; BTW, these are all die number 6. Another fairly scarce coin is the 1878/7 sixpence of the same year....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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