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The BU Uncirculated Sets issued in 1965, which was the last year of minting of the pre-decimal coins, came in three different versions. When the Government decided to introduce decimal currency, the Royal Mint withdrew a few of the old coins. The 1930 penny is one of the rarest Australian coins, due to a very small number being minted, [1] and holds the record as the most valuable copper penny in the world. [2] Bruce, Colin R.; Thomas Michael (2005). 2006 Standard Catalog of World Coins (1901–present). KP Books. p.67. ISBN 0-87349-987-5. The 1930 penny". Triton Technologies. 14 July 2001. Archived from the original on 5 October 2018 . Retrieved 20 January 2022.
On the other hand, some rare significant doubled die pennies are worth several hundred and sometimes thousands of dollars. That makes these pieces highly collectible. 1965 Die Breaks Lincoln penny The Bank of England called in the ten shilling note on 22 November 1970. This meant it was no longer legal tender, but you could still can take it to the BankGeorge Kruger Gray was an English artist, best remembered for his designs of coinage and stained glass windows. The pound was the same pound the UK has today, but it was a banknote, not a coin. The old penny was a large bronze coin. The shilling was a silver-coloured coin, before 1946 it contained real When Britain's decimal system was introduced in 1971, the value of money had gone down. We no longer had farthings. They were withdrawn in
possibly some earlier Royal Mint engravers for the coin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons licenced under Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) But what about inflation? According to the retail price index, prices have gone up by a factor of fifteen since 1965.then the reverse changing to the 1909 pattern (2D) with a choppier sea which now meets the legs exactly where they cross. Nowadays, this lovely penny is one of the most recognizable coins worldwide, and there is no American who doesn’t keep a few pieces in their home. The obverse of the coin featured the reigning Australian monarch. Three were featured: George V, George VI and Elizabeth II. All of the pennies bearing George VI and Elizabeth II had a kangaroo on the reverse. The kangaroo image was on the Australian half penny and has since been included on the dollar coin and the bullion silver kangaroo. It shows the Lincoln Memorial Building, and you can see Lincoln’s sitting statue through the central pillars. Towards the right corner of the entrance steps, you can see FG for designer Frank Gasparro. The top of the coin reads United States of America. Below that, it says E Pluribus Unum with dots flanking Unum. On the bottom rim of the coin, it says One Cent. Other Features of the 1965 Penny SMS coins share some qualities with both proof coinage and business-strike (aka circulation strike) pieces:
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