Owner Comments:
A beautiful example of an 1889 1/4 cent from the age of Queen Victoria, the age of queen victoria is the first age of straits settlements coinage, even though the 1889 is not an out of this world date, it is still a good date overall, it has a mintage of 2,000,037, and is made out of bronze, but from 1872-1883, they were made out of copper, then in 1884-1916 they were all made out of bronze, it had a diameter of 18mm and a thickness of 1mm and weighed 2.33grams and it had a reeded edge, engraved by Leonard Charles Wyon.Usually most queen Victorian coinage are very rare to be in BU (brilliant uncirculated), this piece is no exception to that, this piece is in an extremely high grade of 65 RB( Red Brown), there are three types of colours, BN(Brown), (Red Brown) and RD(Red), this piece has amazing eye appeal, with glistening cartwheel luster, this piece is a critical piece to this collection, I am a proud and happy collector to own this coin thank you !