Get values for your 1876 One Cent
? A prized first-year issue of the twenty cents and of any Straits Settlement coins, the 1871 piece is the key date of this series with the lowest mintage at 16,000. Numismatists have speculated that most of the early twenty cents once shipped back from Britain, the coins were spent through the different Strait Settlements and lost in time. Interestingly most of the examples researched appear to be proof-like with square ridges and sharp denticles , this can perhaps be because ...
Get values for your 1821 Half Crown
? The Melbourne mint opened its doors in 1872 but it wasn't until 1873 that the first half sovereigns were struck with an M mintmark underneath the shield. A total of 165,034 half sovereigns were struck in 1873 and unlike the early Sydney mint designs, the Melbourne mint had a standardised reverse design throughout the series though the obverse had three different variants. Reverse: Melbourne mint 'M' mintmark directly below the shield and between two rosettes ...
? The wheat stalks design continued into this type right until the conclusion of the threepence series in 1964. This type features a slightly reworded obverse legend, ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA F:D , after public outcry that the previous type omitted FIDEI DEF . All dates in the series are easy to acquire in mint state, though the 1956 is quite scarce and underrated. Most dates other than the 1956 are relatively easy to acquire up to MS66 due to nice surfaces owing to the small size ...