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The shilling, on advice from Minister of Native Affairs Sir Āpirana Ngata, was prescribed as a "Maori figure crouching alert with taiaha [...] design fairly filling circle, plain field." The Royal Mint was asked to reference Allan Gairdner Wyon 's 1911 design for the Hector Memorial Medal , the obverse of which shows a Māori hunter snaring a ...
King George V 1910–1936: silver half crown, sterling silver (92½% silver) until 1919, then 50% silver. King Edward VIII 1936: 50% silver half crown. Not issued for circulation. King George VI 1937–1952: 50% silver half crowns were issued until 1946 when the metal was changed to cupro-nickel.
Portrait of King George VI. Designed by Thomas H. Paget. Ram's head facing left, "AUSTRALIA" above, two Federation stars, "SHILLING" and year below. Designed by George Kruger Gray. 1938 1938–1944 50% silver, 40% copper, 5% zinc, 5% nickel: 1946 1946, 1948, 1950, 1952 Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. Designed by Mrs Mary Gillick. 1953 1953–1963
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The obverse, by Thomas Humphrey Paget, shows the left-facing effigy of the King inscribed GEORGIVS VI D G BR OMN REX. The reverse, by Kruger Gray, depicts a crowned rose with a thistle and shamrock on either side. There is a G below the thistle and R below the shamrock, and the inscription FID DEF IND IMP TWO SHILLINGS date until 1948.
The East African shilling was the sterling unit of account in British-controlled areas of East Africa from 1921 until 1969. [2] It was issued by the East African Currency Board. It is also the proposed name for a common currency that the East African Community plans to introduce. The shilling was divided into 100 cents, and twenty shillings ...
[16] [17] The obverse of the coin, like other New Zealand coinage of the period, shows an uncrowned bust of George VI designed by Humphrey Paget. [18] Struck in .500 fineness , the 1949 crown was the sole circulating silver coin in New Zealand following the abandonment of silver coinage in favour of cupronickel in 1947.
The florin was worth two shillings (24 pence, or one-tenth of a pound). The denomination was first minted in 1910 to the same size and weight as the British florin. 1942 S florin minted during the reign of George VI, showing the last common reverse design for Australian florins.