? 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 ...
? In 1951 the Royal Mint in London manufactured an unknown number of proof sixpence pieces while producing 20,024,000 business strike Sixpence for Australia. In the same year the Melbourne Mint produced a further 13,760,000 business strike pieces. The London variety can be distinguished from the Melbourne variety by a small 'PL' mint-marklocated above the date on the reverse . PL is an abbreviation of pecunia londinii or percussa londinio . London 'PL' mint-mark ...
?Image from: A.H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd . Victoria, Sovereign, 1872, young head left. 'Auction 79 8 May 2013'. Retrieved from https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=452&lot=1217
? The Hong Kong Two Dollar coin issued during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II featured the Queens portrait by Raphael Maklouf on the obverse. The legend around the perimeter reads QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND. The reverse shows Chinese symbols of the denomination, date and country with a ring of dots. Outside of this is the legend HONG KONG TWO DOLLAR. Hong Kong was ceded to Britain in 1842 following the First Opium War upon the Treaty of Nanjing. Prior to the war, China was exporting ...
? The 1887-H half cent is third year of this brief five coin series with all issues struck at the Heaton mint in Birmingham as denoted by the H mintmark above the date. The year is one of the scarcest in the series especially when sought in top grades despite its high mintage of 5,000,000. A marking, usually a letter or dot that signifies which mint struck a particular coin The number of coins struck of a particular designation