Thanks Serial. The mintage is definitely wrong in Krause - both my 1985 and 2001 editions show it as 1,639,000 - interestingly, it was valued at US$30 in Fine in 1985! I'd never realised this was such a scarce coin.
The mintage was 117,000. The coin is nominally at least VF to gVF (8 pearls and centre diamond) but looks as though it has had a light polish and has a few other issues so not worthy of slabbing. Krause doesn't do non US coins very well. For some coins in the 2014 edition they have not updated the values since I purchased my 2001 edition.
I'm going to take mine somewhere to confirm whether genuine, and if it is I'll pop it into a coin book for my some and we can have fun seeing how many we have for a collection and what ones we can keep an eye out for to buy. Thanks for the exta info and pics, really fascinating int he world of coins
The penny mintage in 1925 was 949,600, 832,000 at the Sydney mint and 117,600 at the Melbourne mint. As the Sydney mint didn't have 1925 dies on hand it is presumed they struck pennies using 1924 dies and so therefore only 117,600 pennies were dated 1925.
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