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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1581410, member: 12789&quot;]Australian coins from that era are fascinating because they were minted all over the place, wherever the Australian government could get a good contract.&nbsp; So they were minted in Britain in London and Heaton, a couple of Indian mints, several mints in Australia and then of course the USA.&nbsp; The logistics of getting coins from Britain during that time practically made getting coins from there impossible due to the U-boat attacks in the North Atlantic.&nbsp; A shipment of paper for India&#039;s Reserve Bank was sunk by a U-Boat and the paper was not recovered until much later after the war.</p><p><br /></p><p>So coins were minted in Canberra, Perth and Sydney in Australia;&nbsp; Bombay, Calcutta in India, London and Heaton in Britain; Denver and San Francisco in the USA.&nbsp; In addition to mintmarks as usual, they used dots, seraphs etc to denote different mints.</p><p><br /></p><p>Years ago I bought several hundred Ozzie pennies from 1912-64 and it was fascinating to go through and determine all the different places they were minted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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