u/NeedThatCoin

Hi all,

The mods have kindly given me permission to post this.

I’ve spent the last few months building British Coin Atlas, an app covering British coinage with a particular focus on overseas territories and colonial issues.

It’s still in development, but it’s now at the stage where I need some proper collectors to test it, spot errors, find bugs and tell me what could be improved.

If anyone here would like to help, I’ll give you 90 days of full access free.

To take part:
Create an account at britishcoinatlas.com, but don’t start the 14-day trial. Then please send me a Reddit message with the email address you registered with and I’ll activate the tester access from my end.

This tester offer will stay open for one week from this post. After that, any new users will need to use the normal 14-day trial.

Any feedback, corrections or criticism is very welcome.

Thanks,
Steve

A nice example of how British Indian coinage balanced imperial authority with local monetary continuity.

An interesting collision of regimes.

By 1821, Ceylon was under British rule and the obverse carries George IV, but the coin is still a rix dollar, a Dutch-derived unit inherited from the island’s earlier monetary system.