Period:Unknown Production date:1866
Materials:silver
Technique:
Subjects:king/queen
Dimensions:Diameter: 32 millimetres Weight: 13.31 grammes
Description:
Silver proof coin. (whole)
IMG
![图片[1]-proof; coin BM-2006-0202.7-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Miscellaneous objects/mid_00459625_001.jpg)
Comments:Associated envelope addressed to “The Honourable R. Meade C.B., Colonial Office, Downing Street, S.W.” Notation on front: “Coins of no value.”Associated letter/list: “List of coins given to Mr. Meade to send to Mr. Freemantle with references to supply of case on 25 April 1879.” Followed by a list of coins and outline tracings of each type of coin. From Joe Cribb’s “Money in the Bank: The Hongkong Bank Money Collection”, 1987, p.32: “The design for the new Hong Kong dollar was finally agreed in May 1965…. The approved front featured a new portrait of Queen Victoria, set in an oriental meander pattern border, by William Theed, who was given a personal sitting by the Queen for this portrait. The new back design was by Owen Jones and also used the same meander border. In the centre of Jones’s design was an ornamental Chinese character, ‘shou’ meaning long life. Both designs were engraved at the Royal Mint by its Chief Engraver, Leonard C. Wyon….”
Materials:silver
Technique:
Subjects:king/queen
Dimensions:Diameter: 32 millimetres Weight: 13.31 grammes
Description:
Silver proof coin. (whole)
IMG
Comments:Associated envelope addressed to “The Honourable R. Meade C.B., Colonial Office, Downing Street, S.W.” Notation on front: “Coins of no value.”Associated letter/list: “List of coins given to Mr. Meade to send to Mr. Freemantle with references to supply of case on 25 April 1879.” Followed by a list of coins and outline tracings of each type of coin. From Joe Cribb’s “Money in the Bank: The Hongkong Bank Money Collection”, 1987, p.32: “The design for the new Hong Kong dollar was finally agreed in May 1965…. The approved front featured a new portrait of Queen Victoria, set in an oriental meander pattern border, by William Theed, who was given a personal sitting by the Queen for this portrait. The new back design was by Owen Jones and also used the same meander border. In the centre of Jones’s design was an ornamental Chinese character, ‘shou’ meaning long life. Both designs were engraved at the Royal Mint by its Chief Engraver, Leonard C. Wyon….”
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