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1900 Hong Kong 10 Cent From 1883 a slightly different portrait of the Queen was used with a more shaped nose and more pronounced nostril. The Q in Queen was also altered with a simpler tail. The obverse rim beading was less widely spaced. With the Victoria 10 Cent coins, the area to check for wear is the pearls and brocade at the top of the shoulder. If you can see all the pearls, the coin is better than VF. The other areas to check are the pearls on the lower rim of the crown and the hair above the eye and the platte, as these are the high points and show wear first. Any uncirculated coin will show individual strands of hair and these specimens are very attractive coins. The piece pictured above grades GVF to AEF. The 10 cent piece is 2.7154 g., .800 silver, .0698 oz ASW. Article compiled by Rod Sell.
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Borrowed Place : The History of Hong Kong by Frank Welsh List: $32.50
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Scholarly, understated, massive history of the Crown Colony, from Britisher and former international banker Welsh. Hong Kong has been a source of embarrassment to both Britain and China from the outset. British Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston sacked the envoy who negotiated the island's cession- -and, ever since, the colony has irritated Whitehall with scandals over drugs, prostitution, corruption, and, now, this dreary hand- over business. On China's end, it's the principle of the thing, a scar symbolic of a great wound. Here, Welsh covers events large and small. In 1854, he tells us, Hong Kong Governor Sir John Bowring precipitated a second Anglo-Chinese war, and, through his efforts, China was opened up to European travelers, missionaries, and traders. In 1894, plague struck, causing Governor Sir William Robinson to observe that the Chinese died ``like sheep,'' since they were ``educated to unsanitary habits...accustomed from infancy to herd together''--but Hong Kong survived to see the British accept a 99-year lease in 1898. The 1960's were the golden years of economic freedom, but, even though the populace prospered, hundreds of thousands suffered wretched temporary living conditions--such as sleeping in cardboard boxes near the Star Ferry terminal and even in wire cages at Mongkok. The events of 1972--when Hong Kong's future was decided by Britain and China--are still shrouded in a secrecy that Welsh doesn't dispel, stating only that some feel that if Britain hadn't approached China, China would have let matters lie because Hong Kong was too valuable a trading partner to lose. Welsh doesn't bring history to life so much as recite details, and even the fascinating characters and events that stipple his pages don't add much color. (For a livelier look at the island- colony, see Gerald Segal's The Fate of Hong Kong, p. 921.) (Sixteen pages of b&w illustrations--not seen) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Email us any information you think is pertinent to either correct or round out the writings here and I will be more than happy to post it. Thanks for reading! Have a commercial site you want to promote? Want 3,368,420 hits to your site for FREE? Click for details! No hidden charges, no strings. Were hot dogs ever made out of dogs? What's so French about french fries? Answers to these and more! Join the FREE Secrets Revealed mailing by MailBits.com |
