Gold $0000.00
Silver $000.00
Platinum $0000.00
Palladium $000.00
1944 'S' (Serif) Shilling - $125
Stock# 120743
George VI
Gem
(MS65 - Uncertified)
During WWII the Australian Government was forced to call on the US mints in San Francisco and Denver to strike coins to overcome a shortage of circulating currency which was caused by the large number of American servicemen stationed there.
It is a little known fact that no master or working dies were sent from Australia to the United States and that the coins that were struck were the product of dies manufactured by the American mints.
A pantograph would have used to produce coin models and hence dies from examples of circulating Australian coins.
There were no shillings struck at the Denver Mint although perhaps dies were produced in 1943 as a variety with an 'S' over a 'D' is recognised by some variety collectors. The San Francisco minted shillings are distinguished by an 'S' which is plain in style on the 1942 dated coins and serifed on the 1943 coins. The 1944 'S' shilling is split between the two types.
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