East Africa Zanzibar Pysa 1881

Zanzibar, the world's foremost producer of cloves, is the name of a small island in the Indian ocean off the coast of Tanzania, Africa. The 1299 date is on the Muslim (Hijri) calendar and is equivalent to the Western (Gregorian) date 1881. These neat copper coins are of the pysa denomination, with 64 pysa in one rupee. Catalog values run like this:

worn: $5 US dollars approximate catalog value
average circulated: $20
well preserved: $50
fully uncirculated: $200

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Coin: 16588, Genre: Colonizers and Colonies, Timeline: World
Created (yyyymm): 201401, Last review: 201601
Appearance: Normal round coin Metallic brown Letters: Flowing style
Years: sort: 1881, filter: 1881 to 1881
Image: east_africa_zanzibar_pysa_1881.jpg
Tags: encircled slicing circal rings africano outteredge rim afrique five eastern numeral afrikaans africaanshe aribic circling afrikaansche arabia edging encircles circel encircle edged edges lining ringed circumference encircling numerals slash zanzibar ring africaine scale lined african lines circles loop bar circumscribed pysa circumscibed east africa afrik circuit arab slice circlet crossbar circle easterly bars arabian slanted arabic loops line one circular incircled afrika ones scales outlined circled outline slant arabesque edge outlining