1/192 Rixdollar Sri Lanka/Ceylon Copper

1/192 Rixdollar
Metal:
State:
Sri Lanka/Ceylon             
Issue year(s):
1802

Catalog reference:



1802, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Milled Copper 1/192 Rixdollar Elephant Coin. XF!



Condition: XF! Mint year: 1802 Mint Place: Bombay References: KM-73. Denomination: 1/192 Rixdollar (milled coinage) Material: Copper Diameter: 19mm Weight: 2.6gm


Obverse: Elephant left, date (1802) below. All within a circle of annulets. Reverse: Value within inner circe, surrounded by legend. All within a circle of pellets. Legend: 192 / GOVERNMENT OF CEYLON


After over two thousand years of rule by local kingdoms, parts of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) were colonized by Portugal and the Netherlands beginning in the 16th century, before the control of the entire country was ceded to the British Empire in 1815.

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. He was concurrently Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and prince-elector of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire until his promotion to King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was the third British monarch of the House of Hanover, but unlike his two predecessors he was born in Britain and spoke English as his first language. Despite his long life, he never visited Hanover.


George III’s long reign was marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places further afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. However, many of its American colonies were soon lost in the American Revolutionary War, which led to the establishment of the United States of America. A series of wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France, over a twenty-year period, finally concluded in the defeat of Napoleon in 1815.


In the latter half of his life, George III suffered from recurrent and, eventually, permanent mental illness. Medical practitioners were baffled by this at the time, although it is now generally thought that he suffered from the blood disease porphyria. After a final relapse in 1810, his eldest son, George, Prince of Wales ruled as Prince Regent. On George III’s death, the Prince Regent succeeded his father as George IV. Historical analysis of George III’s life has gone through a “kaleidoscope of changing views” which have depended heavily on the prejudices of his biographers and the sources available to them.


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Posted by: anonymous  2019-03-24
Sri Lanka (Ceylon). George III. 1760-1820. 1/92 Rixdollar 1802. Kleiner Stempelfehler, fast vorzüglich

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Posted by: anonymous  2016-12-04
1802, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Milled Copper 1/192 Rixdollar Elephant Coin. XF! Condition: XF! Mint year: 1802 Mint Place: Bombay References: KM-73. Denomination: 1/196 Rixdollar (milled coinage) Material: Copper Diameter: 19mm Weight: 2.6gm Obverse: Elephant left, date (180 ...

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Posted by: anonymous  2015-08-24
† COINS, ASIAN TERRITORIES, MILLED COINAGE, CEYLON George III (1760-1820), Bronzed-copper Proof 1/192-Rix Dollar, 1802 (KM 73; Pr 87a). Choice uncirculated. £150-200

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Posted by: anonymous  2015-08-24
† COINS, ASIAN TERRITORIES, MILLED COINAGE, CEYLON George III (1760-1820), Copper 1/192-Rix Dollar, 1802 (KM 73; Pr 87). Uncirculated, red and brown with 50% mint red, rarer than the Proof in such high grade as this. £150-200

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Posted by: anonymous  2015-08-20
WORLD COINS. CEYLON. Copper Proof 1/92-Rix-Dollar, 1802. AE, 2.42g (Pr 88; KM 73). An impaired Proof, about uncirculated, a couple of spots on the reverse, lustrous. Proof only issue $500
RHODESIA (British Colony) 20 Cents 1964 - Copper/Nickel - Elizabeth II. - 3124
Sold for: $2.0
RHODESIA (British Colony) 20 Cents 1964 - Copper/Nickel - Elizabeth II. - 3124
NEPAL 10 Rupees 1968 - Silver .600 - FAO - aUNC - 2768
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