5 Cents

Features

Issuer	Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia)
Type	Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens
Year	1977
Value	5 Cents (0.05)
Currency	Rupee (1878-1984)
Composition	Bronze
Diameter	18.5 mm
Thickness	1.8 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 17765
References	X# 1 Krause Publications (publisher). Unusual World Coins. Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, United States (5 volumes). , Schön# 18 Battenberg Gietl Verlag (publisher). Weltmünzkatalog. Battenberg Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf, Bavaria, Germany (4 volumes).

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Commemorative issue

150th anniversary of the kingdom of the cocos islands Automatically translated

Obverse

Portrait of John Clunies Ross, the 1st. King of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

Script: Latin

Lettering: JOHN CLUNIES ROSS

Reverse

Palm tree on a beach leaning left.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
KEELING-COCOS ISLANDS
5
CENTS
1977

Edge

Plain

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1977										$ 41

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