? The George V Penny series, lasting throughout George V's reign from 1911 to 1936, features a partitioned, circular reverse design with COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA around the outer ring with the year at the bottom and ONE PENNY within the inner ring. The obverse features the crowned bust of King George V facing to the left and the legend, GEORGIVS V D.G. BRITT : OMN : REX F. D. IND : IMP . Like most George V series, this a very popular series to collect. In lower grade, all dates can ...
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? The 1942-S Florin is an interesting piece struck at the San Francisco mint . The type was struck with a mintage of 6,000,000 and was produced in addition to 17,896,000 pieces produced at the Melbourne Mint in the same year. This large mintage was created in response to a widely published shortage of both silver and copper coinage. Newspapers put forward a number of reasons for the shortage. One was that the influx of American troops following Pearl Harbour had increased ...
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? 1922 was the first year in which the Perth mint assisted en masse in the production of Australian copper coins. This was due to the strong demand for circulating currency, in particular the lower denominations brought about by the roaring twenties. The Melbourne mint produced a total of 9,529,440 pennies while the Perth mint produced 3,626,400 from November 1921 to February 1923 . Of these, 208,800 were struck prior to the receipt of 1922 dies and can be assumed to ...