1902 Hong Kong Penny - Uncirculated, Beautiful Color - Low Mintage - Visible Luster

This listing is for the photographed 1902 Great Britain Hong-Kong Penny. These are large cent sizes, a little smaller than the size of a US Half Dollar. Low Mintage, and incredible condition. Mint luster still visible on the obverse. Beautiful coin for a collection.

Hong Kong was a British colony and later a British Dependent Territory from 1841 to 1997, apart from a period of Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945 during the Pacific War. The colonial period began with the British occupation of Hong Kong Island in 1841, during the First Opium War between the British and the Qing dynasty. The Qing had wanted to enforce its prohibition of opium importation within the dynasty that was being exported mostly from British India and was causing widespread addiction among the populace.