Description
Country or authority: British North Borneo Company / State of North Borneo
Year or date range: 1903
Denomination: 5 cents
Composition: Copper-nickel
Ruler or portrait: None; armorial type
Mint or mintmark: Heaton and Sons, Birmingham; probable H mintmark
Catalogue references: Provisional (unverified): KM#5, North Borneo 5 Cents, 1903 H
Obverse description: Coat of arms with a ship on a shield, supported by two standing indigenous figures; crest above and motto ribbon reading PERGO ET PERAGO. A small mark below the ribbon appears consistent with the Heaton H mintmark, though it is not sharply resolved.
Reverse description: Legend STATE OF NORTH BORNEO around a dotted inner border, with large 5 above CENTS and date 1903 below; reeded outer border.
