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The bronze coins also featured the denomination HALF PENNY on the reverse for the first time, with the date in the exergue beneath Britannia. The inscription on the obverse of the "young head" coins reads VICTORIA D G BRITT REG F D , while on the "old head" it is VICTORIA DEI GRA BRITT REGINA FID DEF IND IMP .
The British pre-decimal halfpenny (pronounced / ˈ h eɪ p ən i /), once abbreviated ob. (from the Latin 'obulus'), [1] is a discontinued denomination of sterling coinage worth 1 / 480 of one pound, 1 / 24 of one shilling, or 1 / 2 of one penny.
In late November 1942, the Tilawa sailed from Ballard Pier in Bombay (now Mumbai), bound for Durban followed by Mombasa and Maputo.Acting as a troopship during the Second World War, [3] the ship carried 732 passengers and 222 crew [1] and 600 tons of cargo, including 2,391 bars of silver bullion [4] intended to be struck as South African and Egyptian coinage at the South African mint.
The US Mint researched ways to reduce or eliminate the usage of copper in cent production. The mint struck pattern coins in various metals, using the obverse design of the Colombian two centavo coin. [1] Dies were sent to various companies to test possible non-metal compositions. Patterns were also struck with modified rim Lincoln cent dies. [2]
SS Robert E. Peary was a Liberty ship which gained fame during World War II for being built in a shorter time than any other such vessel. Named after Robert Peary, an American explorer who was among the first people to reach the geographic North Pole, she was launched on November 12, 1942, just 4 days, 15 hours and 26 minutes after the keel was laid down.
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It was a unit of currency that equalled half of a penny, 1 / 24 of a shilling, or 1 / 480 of a pound. [2] The coin was made to be equivalent to the British halfpenny ; its dimensions, composition and values were equivalent, and additionally, the two currencies were fixed at par. [ 3 ]
A 1933 government report recommended the employment of domestic artists for future coinage of the New Zealand pound. Deputy Master of the Royal Mint Robert Johnson, writing to numismatist Allan Sutherland after the introduction of the first series of coinage in 1934, urged significant time to be spent on the designs of the penny and halfpenny in order to assure quality designs. [6]