Mauritius - Coins from Tropical Islands in the Indian Ocean

WillieBoyd2

In the mid 1960's I collected world coins and owned the book A Catalog of Modern World Coins by R. S. Yeoman, seventh edition, published in 1967.

There was a island country in the book named Mauritius and from a coin dealer's foreign coin "junk bin" I acquired a Mauritius 20 cent coin dated 1886.

1. Mauritius 20 Cents 1886
Silver, 18.0 mm, 2.33 gm

Mauritius is an island in the Indian Ocean.
It had been a British possession for a long time and is now independent.

1. Mauritius 1 Cent 1965
Bronze, 17.0 mm, 1.94 gm

2. Mauritius 2 Cents 1969
Bronze, 23.0 mm, 3.87 gm

3. Mauritius 5 Cents 1967
Bronze, 28.0 mm, 9.87 gm

4. Mauritius 10 Cents 1966
Copper-nickel, 24.0 mm, 5.12 gm

5. Mauritius Quarter Rupee 1965
Copper-nickel, 19.0 mm, 2.91 gm

6. Mauritius Half Rupee 1965
Copper-nickel, 23.0 mm, 5.74 gm

7. Mauritius Rupee 1956
Copper-nickel, 30.0 mm, 11.64 gm

Another old coin from Mauritius:

1. Mauritius Quarter Rupee 1950
Copper-nickel, 19.0 mm, 2.92 gm

pruebas

Didn’t Noonans just sell an important collection of Mauritius?

Did you acquire anything from there?

bosox

I used to make business trips to Mauritius and Reunion. Beautiful islands,

3stars

The gold DoDos do it for me!