On one side is Imperial British East Africa Co. with a scale in the middle with an Arabic inscrption below. On the reverse side it says, Mombasa 1306AH with an Arabic saying in the middle and grain on the bottom.
Back in 1888 the countries of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda were grouped under British rule into a region known as East Africa. Your coin is from Mombassa, a city on the Kenyan coast which was, and is, a thriving Arabic commercial center. The date 1306 is the Muslim date equivalent to 1888.
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