? The ram design continued into this 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 with both dates being readily available in mint state, ...
? 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 ...
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? The Type III ten cent piece has been issued regularly since 1999. The type features the Ian Rank-Broadley portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II which was introduced to put a more mature face of HM on Australia's circulating currency. The reverse contains Stuart Devlin's superb lyrebird design. Devlin's initials can be found beside the birds foot . A number of different strike types have been issued in addition to the standard business, specimen, and proof strikes. From 2001, the ...
?Image from: London Coins Ltd . Half Sovereign 1848 8 over 7 Marsh 422A. 'Auction 163 2-3 Dec 2018'. Retrieved from https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?lot=541&p=lot&sid=2902