1902 B Great Britain Trade Dollar - China-Hong Kong-Singapore-India HIGH GRADE

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1902 B Great Britain Trade Dollar - China-Hong Kong-Singapore-India HIGH GRADE:
$97.00

This is a very nice example of the 1902 Trade Dollar created by Great Britain to facilitate trade and banking with a growing market in the East. Very little signs, if any, of true circulation. It looks like this one spent its time in money bags and not in the marketplace. Beautiful golden toning has begun around the outer ring, enhancing the almost perfect image of Lady Britannia.
CHECK THE PHOTOS!! There is even a closeup of the mint mark contained within the tiny center prong of Britannia\'s trident (amazing!).

For Britishtrade in the East, especially after the founding of Singapore in 1819 and HongKong in 1842, a special Dollar was produced to remove reliance upon variousforeign coins then in circulation. This Trade Dollar is from the reign ofVictoria, and was minted at the Bombay mint. The “B” mint mark of Bombay iscontained within the center prong of the trident held by Britannia.

In the decades thatfollowed the Opium Wars (1839-1843, 1856-1860), international trade flourished as Britain took control of Hong Kong. Foreign banks were established, andlarge silver coins from all over the world began arriving to pay for tea, silk,and Chinese porcelain to be shipped abroad. These .900-fine silver tradedollars were then circulated throughout China, where they were readily acceptedas a medium of exchange. The British Trade Dollars, minted exclusively for usein the Far East, depict Britannia standing on shore, holding a trident in onehand and balancing a British shield in the other, with a merchant ship underfull sail in the background. On the reverse is an arabesque design with theChinese symbol for longevity in the center, and the denomination in twolanguages— Chinese and Jawi Malay.

TheBritish Trade Dollar was minted from 1895 for Hong Kong and the StraitsSettlements. But after the Straits dollar was introduced to the StraitsSettlements in 1903, it became exclusively a Hong Kong coin, with the lastbeing produced in 1935. Those with the mint mark \"B\" were produced atthe Bombay mint; others, marked \"C\", were struck in Calcutta. Thosewith no mint mark were produced in London.

TheBritish Trade Dollar was demonetized on August 1, 1937.

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