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<p>[QUOTE="PaddyB, post: 1794662, member: 40017"]Other people have already contributed answers to this. There is no Mauritius Crown sized coin that I know of, and I guess they used the Anchor coinage in earlier days, and either British Crowns, or the British Trade Dollars in later times. Of course the real fundamental coin of the time would have been the gold sovereign, but they were not minted in the smaller colonies either.</p><p>Colonial coinage does seem to be pricey at the moment. I think the smaller numbers of coins produced for some of these places, combined with the current increased wealth of them as independent nations, has led to demand exceeding supply, and so the prices rising.</p><p>This one I have posted in this thread before, but it is such a beauty I hope you don't mind seeing it again!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]290195[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="PaddyB, post: 1794662, member: 40017"]Other people have already contributed answers to this. There is no Mauritius Crown sized coin that I know of, and I guess they used the Anchor coinage in earlier days, and either British Crowns, or the British Trade Dollars in later times. Of course the real fundamental coin of the time would have been the gold sovereign, but they were not minted in the smaller colonies either. Colonial coinage does seem to be pricey at the moment. I think the smaller numbers of coins produced for some of these places, combined with the current increased wealth of them as independent nations, has led to demand exceeding supply, and so the prices rising. This one I have posted in this thread before, but it is such a beauty I hope you don't mind seeing it again! [ATTACH=full]290195[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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