A rare opportunity to own an authentic British Trade Dollarfirst issued over a century agoyour chance to hold a piece of history in your handsThe British Trade Dollar takes you back in time to the era of Empire, when Britannia ruled the waves and Britain ruled an Empire on which the sun never set. It is a coin that no collection should be without and yet surprisingly, it is a coin that relatively few people are aware of.  A British Dollarthe coins name alone makes you wonder how it came to be This coins history is a fascinating one. It was quite literally the coin that got the tea out of Chinaand back to the United Kingdom.  Its not an ancient piece, it dates back just 124 years, yet its history was relatively short-lived as it circulated for a mere 40 years.  The British Trade Dollar was born out of the necessity to trade with China and Britains colonies in the East. The regions long-trusted standard coin of trade had, for centuries, been the Mexican 8 Reales aka the S