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1943SA 5 Cents

1937H 5 Cents

1941I 5 Cents

1942 5 Cents

1937 Half Shilling or 50 Cents

1952 Shilling

1941 10 cents

1935 10 cents

1951 10 cents

1951 10 cents

1943 10 cents

1942 10 cents

1922 10 cents

1937 10 cents

Here's a 1927 10 cents - I have scanned a few coins but I can't find the folder with some of the better coins to do scans of them. I'll add some later

1927 10 cents

Here's a 1911 Heaton Mint 10 cent

1911 10 cents

I have couple of nice 1936 Edward the 8th coins

1936 5 cents

1936 10 cents

Sorry I haven't posted in such a long time but both my parents became very ill and I cared for them until they both passed on. I am just starting get my enthusiasm back for coins and have a ball catching up with all the posts, particularly the russian.

regards

Phil

Bought another one

Ireland 1805 Bank Token 10 pence

has a leaf between the D and E of Dei

Small Flan variety s6617;KM Tn3

Sold at baldwins "Boyd" sale 26/9/2005

Obverse

Reverse

Thanks for that - I should have researched it better. I assumed they were part of the same group of Bank tokens

I bought this one recently - I believe they were made by the Bank of England and used as normal/circulation currency

Obverse

Reverse

The main reason Australia and england reduced the silver content in the coinage was to repay the War debt to America - between 48 and 53 Australia sent 200 tons of silver to America from smelted down coinage. The bulk of which was pre 1946 silver coins which accounts for the scarcity and high price of silver pre decimal coins particularly George the V florins from 1911 to 1916.

Traditionally the 1932 Florin and the 1910 florin in high grade are the key dates but the 1914,15 and 16 command steep prices for EF and above.

The 1939 is the key George VI and the 1953 and 1956 are the Elizabeth II key dates.

Yes you are correct - San Francisco it was , not Sacramento

Here is the florin from 1944 produced at San Francisco with one from Melbourne to compare

1944S Reverse

1944M Reverse

The florins from 1910 to 1945 were 92.5% silver and 7.5% copper

then in 1946 they changed to 50% silver, 40% copper, 5% Zinc and 5% Nickel and continued through to 1963

I believe 3D, 6D and shillings were the same.

Not really sure what the English did - I thought they lowered the silver content back in the 20's

A very rare coin I have had for few years - a 5 cent struck on a 1 cent planchet. The one cent is a smaller blank and is 97% copper. The Echidna looks really good on the copper as opposed to the silvery Cu-Ni.

There are not that many Mints really unless you include coins minted overseas - London, Birmingham, Calcutta, Bombay, Denver, San Francisco (not Sacramento as I originally said, its late at night here in Australia).

In Australia the only active Mint for circulating coinage is Canberra with Perth producing NCLT coins and Gold.

Sydney Mint shut in 1926 from memory, Melbourne in 1968 and Perth stopped producing decimal coins in the early 70's.

Perth only produced silver coins in one year - the 1946 shilling - 1946S.

Adelaide produced Gold coins in 1852.