? The Diamond Wedding commemorative issue coin celebrates the union of HM The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. The reverse was designed by Stuart Devlin and shows the Queen and the Duke facing each other with a diamond shining below them. It is surrounded by a fanfare and the legend ELIZABETH AND PHILIP 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY FIFTY CENTS. The obverse features an Ian Rank-Broadley portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II, right-facing and crowned. It also has the legend ELIZABETH ...
? The 1912 proof or specimen half penny was produced at the Heaton mint in Birmingham, as indicated by a H mintmark , as a proof of record example of the series. The Heaton in did this for the penny series in 1912, the shilling series in 1915 and the florin series in 1914 and 1915 but did not produce any threepence or sixpence. The piece can be identified by even surfaces devoid of cartwheel lustre and while the original surfaces are mirror reflective, ...
? The Sydney mint reverted to the Imperial St George and Shield designs in 1871 with the Shield design intended for export to other colonies. The fourth reverse design features a short length tail as opposed to the long tail used since 1871 and the medium tail used since 1874 as in the illustration below: This type differs from the other St George reverse designs by having a wider truncation at the base of the bust of her Majesty Queen Victoria. The origin mint of this issue can be determined ...
? The wheat stalks design continued into this type right until the conclusion of the threepence series in 1964. This type features a slightly reworded obverse legend, ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA F:D , after public outcry that the previous type omitted FIDEI DEF . All dates in the series are easy to acquire in mint state, though the 1956 is quite scarce and underrated. Most dates other than the 1956 are relatively easy to acquire up to MS66 due to nice surfaces owing to the small size ...
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