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WORLD COINS - SIERRA LEONE/URUGUAY - 1960S - ROYAL MINT 'IMI KNB' TRIAL PIECE 1960s AD Obv: profile bust of Sir Milton Margai with ROYAL MINT TRIAL legend. Rev: 5 / CENTESIMOS in two lines with small initials I M I K N B with the loop of the numeral, within wreath. Edge: interrupted milling. 4.60 grams, 23mm. As struck. Rare. [No Reserve] Literature See Sierra Leone KM# 19 (for obverse type) and Uruguay KM# 34/38 (for reverse type); see also Sierra Leone KM# TS1 variant (different initials to reverse) and Uruguay KM# PnA54/PnB54 variant (ditto). Footnotes The initials IMIKNB for Imperial Metal Industries, Kings Norton, Birmingham; presumably the suppliers of the alloy; this trial combining design types of Sierra Leone (10 cents, with addition of moustache) for obverse and Uruguay (5 centesimos) for reverse.