25 Cent Sri Lanka/Ceylon Silver

1926, Ceylon (British Colony), George V. Silver 25 Cents Coin.

Mint year: 1926 

Reference: KM-105a.   

Denomination: 25 Cents 

Composition: Silver (.550) 

Diameter: 18mm 

Weight: 2.89gm

British Ceylon (Sinhala: බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය ලංකාව, Britanya Lankava; Tamil: பிரித்தானிய இலங்கை, Birithaniya Ilangai), known contemporaneously as Ceylon, was a British Crown colony between 1802 and 1948. At first the area it covered did not include the Kingdom of Kandy,   which was a protectorate from 1815, but from 1817 to 1948 the British   possessions included the whole island of Ceylon, now the nation of Sri Lanka.

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was     King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of     India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War (1914–1918) until his     death in 1936.

George was a grandson of Queen Victoria and Prince     Albert and the first cousin of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser     Wilhelm II of Germany. From 1877 to 1891, he served in the Royal Navy.     On the death of Victoria in 1901, George’s father became King Edward     VII, and George was made Prince of Wales. On his father’s death in 1910,     he succeeded as King-Emperor of the British Empire. He was the only     Emperor of India to be present at his own Delhi Durbar.

As a result of the First World War, other empires in     Europe fell while his expanded to its greatest extent. In 1917, he     became the first monarch of the House of Windsor, which he renamed from     the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as a result of anti-German public     sentiment. His reign saw the rise of socialism, communism, fascism,     Irish republicanism, and the Indian independence movement, all of which     radically changed the political landscape. The Parliament Act 1911     established the supremacy of the elected House of Commons of the United     Kingdom over the unelected House of Lords. He appointed the first   Labour   ministry in 1924 and in 1931, the Statute of Westminster   recognised the   dominions of the Empire as separate, independent   kingdoms within the   Commonwealth of Nations. He was plagued by illness   throughout much of   his later reign and at his death was succeeded by   his eldest son, Edward   VIII.