The Royal Mint as solely responsible for production of British silver coin at the time, between 1834 and 1862 produced more than 5.9 millions pieces of 1½ pence for shipping to the British colonies.

Is well known that large quantities mainly ended up being sent to Jamaica, but I could only confirm the shipments made in 1834, 1860 and 1862 to that island. Unfortunately several of textbooks refer to the West Indies, without mentioning any particular colony.

In the case of shipments made to Africa, I was able to confirm those made to Sierra Leone in 1836 and 1839.

In short, using all the data collected, I created the next table analyzing the orders of 1½ pence coins requested and sent to each colony, which still needs a deeper study, as more new evidence become available.

Destinations marked with a number in parenthesis, are those in which I have been able to corroborate them according to original documents or textbooks, the others are those elaborated using a little bit of common sense, like my own hypothesis. 

Although the Royal Mint sent 1½ pence coins to specific destinations, according to orders received from the colonies or their agents in London, many circulated in places that were not supposed to, and in other cases the least imaginable. Since it is too much information to display of each, I dedicated a sub-page to each destination. The visitor can browse all sub-pages from the interconnection within next table, marked LINK.



As I mentioned before about the myth of the 1½ pence, miss-attributed by authors as part of the Maundy coins, another similar myth is the alleged circulation or shipping by the Mint in London of the small three halfpence, to the island of Ceylon, in the Pacific Ocean.

Back in 1895, the British officer and author, Lieutenant-Colonel Bazillai Lowsley [1840-1905], who arrived in Colombo in March 1890, and while living in the colony for about two years, devoted himself to collecting and studying coins circulating in the island, published an article, mentioning that. some confusion, apparently begins approximately at the time when the book written by James Atkins, published in 1889, where he cataloged the various dates from 1834 to 1862 as struck for Ceylon [Sri-Lanka]. [5]

Apparently, it was the first time the 1½ pence were wrongly classified as minted specifically for the colony, but not the last time, as many authors today, even catalogs, continued wrongly listing them as coins struck for that colony.

Δ   Mr. Lowsley article, was published a century ago, the first person that try to debunk the myth before the public and collectors in general. Outlined in red, some paragraphs of his article, explaining his hypothesis, which nobody has been able to refute, either no document has surfaced that proves otherwise. [6]