page_title: East African rupee
section_title: Coins
hierarchical_section_title: East African rupee / Coins
caption_attribution_description: English: 1 cent coin of the East African Rupee from 1913. Material copper/nickel alloy, diameter 22.3 mm
context_page_description: The rupee was the currency of Britain's East African colonies and protectorates between 1906 and 1920. It was divided into 100 cents.
  The rupee replaced the Indian rupee, which had previously circulated. In 1920, the rupee was revalued against sterling to a peg of 1 rupee = 2 shillings. In East Africa, this was followed in the same year by the replacement of the rupee with the East African florin at par.
  The currency is noteworthy for including the world's first aluminium coin, the 1907 1 cent coin.
context_section_description: Silver coins were introduced for 25 and 50 cents in 1906, followed by the aluminium 1 cent and cupro-nickel 10 cent coins in 1907, the aluminium ½ cent coin in 1908 and the cupro-nickel 5 cent coin in 1913. Cupro-nickel replaced aluminium in 1909.
caption: 1 cent coin from 1913, cupro-nickel alloy
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