1898, British East Africa (Protectorate). Colonial Copper Pice Coin. VF-

References: KM-1. Denomination: 1 Pice Mint year: 1898 / 1899 Condition:  Struck with broken obverse die, greenish deposits (vendigris), light corrosion (environmental damage), otherwise VF! Composition: Copper Diameter: 25mm Weight: 6.4gm

Obverse: Crowned bust of Queen Victoria left. Legend: VICTORIA . DEI . GRA . BRITT . REGINA . FID . DEF . IND . IMP . Reverse: Value numeral (1), flanked by value in words (ONE) and denomination (PICE). All within quatrefoil. Legend: EAST . AFRICA . PROTECTORATE . 1898 .

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.