? The Kruger Gray reverse design continued into the second George VI type, however, after the independence of India in late 1947, IND IMP needed to be omitted from the obverse legend; this did not occur until 1949. The obverse still features an uncrowned bust of King George VI facing to the left, however, the legend changed to GEORGIVS VI D : G : BR : OMN : REX FIDEI DEF and was used up until the end of George VI's reign in 1952. The series is relatively easy to complete, though ...
?Image from: Heritage Auctions . Victoria Young Head Sovereign 1843/2. '2007 September Long Beach, CA Signature World Coin Auction #441'. Retrieved from https://coins.ha.com/itm/great-britain/world-coins/great-britain-victoria-young-head-sovereign-1843-2-/a/441-51394.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515
? The 1866 proof half sovereign and sovereign pairs were discovered in London in the early 1970 and were struck as part of the Colonial mint's display at the Inter-Colonial Exhibition in 1866 and the International Exposition in Paris in 1867 as products of New South Wales . References Reserve Bank of Australia . The Auction of the Gold Coins of the Reserve Bank of Australia: pp VI-VII. Melbourne Museum . Sydney Mint. Available at: ...
? In 1916 the Calcutta mint produced half pennies for Australia as neither the Sydney, Melbourne nor Perth mints were prepared to produce bronze coins. A very small number of 1916 half pennies were mistakenly struck with the obverse of an Indian one quarter anna though this was not discovered until June 1965 when Cecil Poole found one in Adelaide. The type of error is called a mule. The half penny mule can be identified by the lack of pearls in the crown of George V and an Elephant on the shoulder ...
? During the Australian Gold Rush the Royal Mint allowed for the construction of a local mint in Sydney to process the raw gold into Sovereigns and Half Sovereigns. By the 1870's the Victorian goldfields were producing such large quantities of gold that a second mint was opened in Melbourne in 1872. The Royal Australian Mint has commemorated 130 years since since this event with the release of a Melbourne Mint piece. The reverse design includes a depiction of the entrance ...