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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 48976, member: 669&quot;]Welcome to the forum nicole.Unfortunately, a damaged coin that could be worth up to $200 in pristine condition, with the right mint mark, is worth 1¢ Australian IF the damage doesn&#039;t cause a merchant or bank to refuse it. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>When minted, your bronze coin had a bust of King George VI facing left on the obverse (which is apparently the blank side of your coin) with the legend &quot;GEORGIVS VI D G BR OMNI REX F D IND IMP&quot; (George IV, By the Grace of God King of all the Britains, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India) around the outside.&nbsp; In order for you to identify it as you did, it must have the reverse design - a kangaroo leaping to the left, with the date under his (her?) tail, &quot;AUSTRALIA&quot; across the top and &quot;PENNY&quot; across the bottom.</p><p><br /></p><p>Listed in the Standard Catalog of World Coins (&quot;Krause&quot;) as KM#36, it is valued in the U.S. at 15¢ Fine, 40¢ Very Fine, $2.50 Extra Fine, and $12 Uncirculated if it is one of the 26,616,000 minted at Melbourne, with no mint mark.&nbsp; If it has a dot after the word &quot;PENNY&quot;, indicating that it is one of the 1,534,000 minted at Perth that year, the values rise to 75¢ F, $3 VF, $35 XF, and $200 Unc.&nbsp; (Both sides have to be present for any of those grades.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Krause doesn&#039;t mention any uniface mint errors being known, but we do have some Aussie members, so in the unlikely event that you have an error coin rather than a damaged one, I&#039;m sure one of them will let us all know. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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