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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Chris B, post: 3723480, member: 87179&quot;]Another one from the Stephen Album sale. Once again, there photos and description.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]998164[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]998165[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: Laureate head right</p><p>Reverse: Elephant left, date below</p><p><br /></p><p>Composition: Copper</p><p><br /></p><p>CEYLON: George III, 1760-1820, AE ½ stiver, 1815, KM-80, Prid-92, bust right // elephant left, hints of red, one-year type, UNC, ex Jerry D. Williams Collection. An Order in Council dated 1st April, 1814, authorized a silver and copper coinage for Ceylon to the extent of 10,000 rixdollars in silver and 200,000 rixdollars in copper. The silver coinage was to consist of one denomination and the copper coinage of five. On the 1st December, 1814, the Royal Mint, London, received orders from the Treasury to strike the coinage. For the copper coinage, although dies were prepared by Thomas Wyon for a ¼ stiver, only three denominations, the 2, 1 and ½ stiver were struck for circulation. The metal for this Ceylon coinage was obtained from demonetized English halfpence. All coins struck bear the date 1815.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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