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The dollar or dala was the currency of Hawaii between 1847 and 1898. It was equal to the US dollar and was divided into 100 ''cents'' or ''keneta''. Only sporadic issues were made which circulated alongside US currency. ==Coins== The first official coinage issued by the Kingdom of Hawai'i was in 1847. This coin was a copper cent bearing the portrait of King Kamehameha III on its obverse. The King Kamehameha III copper cent proved to be unpopular due to the King's portrait being of poor quality. Although it is claimed the denomination was misspelled (''hapa haneri'' instead of ''hapa haneli''), the spelling "Hapa Haneri" was correct until the end the 19th century. The spelling "Haneri" (Hawaiian for "Hundred") appears on all $100 and $500 Hawaiian bank notes in circulation between 1879 and 1900.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Image: HwiP.4p100DollarsND1879.jpg )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Image: HwiP.5p500DollarsND1879.jpg )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Image: HwiP.UNL15100Dollars1895SerC.jpg )〕 In 1883, Kingdom of Hawai'i official silver coinage were issued in the denominations of one dime (''umi keneta'' in Hawaiian), quarter dollar (''hapaha''), half dollar (''hapalua'') and one dollar (''akahi dala''). 26 proof sets were struck by the Philadelphia Mint and contained the umi keneta, hapaha, hapalua, and akahi dala. 20 proof specimens in the denomination of an eight dollar (''hapawalu'') were also struck. The Kingdom of Hawai'i desired to conform to the United States silver coinage denominations and selected the umi keneta over the hapawalu. The silver coins issued for circulation in the Kingdom was struck by the San Francisco Mint Hawaiian coins continued to circulate for several years after the 1898 annexation to the United States. In 1903, an act of Congress demonetized Hawaiian coins, and most were withdrawn and melted, with a sizable percentage of surviving examples made into jewelry. Following melting, the maximum number of each circulating coin that could possibly exist is as follows: * Umi Keneta: 249,921 * Hapaha: 242,600 * Hapalua: 87,700 * Akahi Dala: 46,300 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hawaiian dollar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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