? The Type II five cent was issued from 1985 until 1998 and featured the new Raphael Maklouf portrait of her majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse, with Stuart Devlin's echidna design on the reverse. Devlin's initials can be found directly underneath the denomination . The series was struck exclusively at the Royal Australian Mint in a cupro-nickel alloy with an additional silver proof produced in 1991 as part of the year's Masterpieces in silver set. An unknown number ...
? 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 ...
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? The threepence switched over to the Kruger Gray reverse in 1937 though no circulation coins were issued until 1938; the design continued until 1952. The design features wheat stalks with AUSTRALIA around the top of the design, THREEPENCE around the bottom, and the year in the middle split on either side of the wheat stalks. The obverse features an uncrowned bust of King George VI facing to the left and the legend, GEORGIVS VI D : G : BR : OMN : REX F : D : IND : IMP which was used ...