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Worldwide Coins & Bank Notes => Other World Coins => Topic started by: Dumanyu on November 11, 2007, 05:45:27 AM

Title: Prince Edward Island
Post by: Dumanyu on November 11, 2007, 05:45:27 AM

Prince Edward Island
1871 One Cent
KM# 4
Bronze
Mintage: 2,000,000
(http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m138/dumanyu2/DSCN0954.jpg)
(http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m138/dumanyu2/DSCN0955.jpg)

Title: Re: Prince Edward Island
Post by: NumisMatty on November 12, 2007, 03:15:46 AM

Oh man...that coin is killing me, I have been reading all about Raffles and his being sent to Prince Edward island and that' a straits settlement coin.... nice acquisition Sir!
...now I recall it's other name was Penang

Title: Re: Prince Edward Island
Post by: Dumanyu on November 12, 2007, 09:51:14 AM

Matty,
    Correct me if I'm wrong, but you go in for the Straits Settlement coins, do you not?

Title: Re: Prince Edward Island
Post by: NumisMatty on November 12, 2007, 07:32:37 PM

Yes, that's why I said all o' that  ;D

Title: Re: Prince Edward Island
Post by: Sap on November 12, 2007, 11:44:22 PM

Um, this coin is from Prince Edward Island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island), now a province of Canada. Not Prince of Wales Island a.k.a. Penang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang), Straits Settlements (now Malaysia).

Title: Re: Prince Edward Island
Post by: Sap on November 13, 2007, 12:03:00 AM

Here is what a 1 cent coin of Prince of Wales Island looks like. KM 13. It's another East India Company territory. The Malay-Arabic text on the reverse simply says "Pulu Penang", Penang Island.

Title: Re: Prince Edward Island
Post by: ElleKitty on November 13, 2007, 07:30:07 AM

I was wondering about that...  I should have said something sooner.  Just didn't make much sense seeing as how PEI is on the Eastern Side of Canada, in the Atlantic.

Title: Re: Prince Edward Island
Post by: Dumanyu on November 13, 2007, 10:36:10 AM

I was a little thrown off by that as well.
No offense meant, Matty.

Title: Re: Prince Edward Island
Post by: NumisMatty on November 13, 2007, 09:40:59 PM

I noticed yesterday whilst doing an ebay search that this was indeed a case of two different places - two different Prince Ed' Islands!
And I almost made a bid for a coin which isn't from the Straits Settlements, which is what I collect....  8)

Title: Re: Prince Edward Island
Post by: scottishmoney on November 15, 2007, 11:58:45 AM

PEI is where Anne of Green Gables was set and is a popular tourist attraction thereof.