1 Shilling

Mint year: 1924 References: KM-21. Denomination: 1 Shilling Condition: Dark deposits, otherwise VF+ Composition: Copper-Nickel Diameter: 28mm Weight: 7.64gm

East Africa Protectorate (also known as British East Africa) was an area in the African Great Lakes occupying roughly the same terrain as present-day Kenya (approximately 639,209 km2 (246,800 sq mi)) from the Indian Ocean inland to Uganda and the Great Rift Valley. Although part of the dominions of the Sultan of Zanzibar,   it was controlled by Britain in the late 19th century; it grew out of   British commercial interests in the area in the 1880s and remained a protectorate until 1920 when it became the colony of Kenya, save for a 16-kilometre-wide (10 mi) coastal strip that became the Kenya protectorate.

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 until his death in 1936.

He was the second son of the Prince of Wales (later   King Edward VII), and grandson of the then reigning British monarch,   Queen Victoria. From the time of his birth, he was third in the line of   succession behind his father and his own elder brother, Prince Albert   Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale. From 1877 to 1891, George served   in the Royal Navy,   until the unexpected death of his elder brother in   early 1892 put him   directly in line for the throne. On the death of   his grandmother in   1901, George's father became King-Emperor of the   British Empire, and George was created Prince of Wales. He succeeded his   father in 1910. He was the only Emperor of India to be present at his   own Delhi Durbar.

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 British House of Commons   over the unelected House of Lords. As a result of the First World War   (1914–1918), the empires of his first cousins Tsar Nicholas II of Russia   and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany fell, while the British Empire   expanded to its greatest effective extent. In 1917, George 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. In   1924 he appointed the first Labour ministry and in 1931 the Statute of   Westminster recognised the dominions of the Empire as separate,   independent states within the Commonwealth of Nations. He had health   problems throughout much of his later reign and at his death was   succeeded by his eldest son, Edward VIII.