Australia in 1946 was a different story, they dropped from Sterling silver (0.925) down to .500 silver like New Zealand.
The 1946 series here has another AU Florin with amazing glistening power, a VF sixpence and a F+ Halfpenny minted in Perth. The Penny was only minted in Melbourne and with just 363k issued, is considered very scarce, with a VG piece costing near $100! Halfpences were only minted in Perth.
No Threepences were minted at all in 1945 or 1946.
Two shilling types for 1946, on left is a dot before "shilling" variety coin minted in Perth and no dot, standard Melbourne coin on right. The dot variety is scarce with just over 1 million made, whilst Melbourne coins are common. Neither of my pieces are high grade though (Barely fine) and the cat on a Dot shilling in that grade is around $10 - $20 rather than hundreds!
Close up of the Florin, looks UNC, but lightest traces of light wear.
Reverses, and you can see how worn those shillings are!
Up to now I've mostly been posting photos of NZ and Aussie coins that I had photographed earlier, but since I had no photos of any of my 1946 coins, I decided to do the lot!
I am complete on NZ apart from the second variety of florin:
I am also changing my photo arrangements so more detail is for the nice coins now we are in the age of silver.
NumisRob, you also have the Roundback Kiwi Florin and the Melbourne shilling. Althoough I have 2 spare 1946 Halfcrowns in VF and would love to send you one to upgrade your Good condition one. Your Florin is pretty nice, a good Fine example.
With this new lockdown, suddenly we have time on our hands!
For 1945 I will deal out Australia first for one reason.
I only have one coin. All the coins sans the 3d and shilling were minted for 1945, but I only have one 6d coin dated that year (Okay its a nice high VF/ almost EF one, but still considering I have been batting around 80% completeness so far - its embarassing)
The Sixpence and even that came in the 6d and 3ds bulk lot I got in 2 weeks ago.
Starting with 1945 and backwards, we enter the sterling silver phase of Australian coins. The later war years of 1942 - 1944 had generous numbers of coins made in Australia and the USA - but before that my collection gets a lot patchier. Just a heads up.
I have more coins from both of those countries, but the files are too large and I'm sitting here sweating my butt off, so I can't be bothered editing the files and trying again, sorry.
Yes I can't wait, I want to send you that nice Kiwi halfcrown. Happy 50th birthday to decimal British coins, and interesting they changed over 5 years and a day after Australia.
Meanwhile NZ for 1945 is completely different. I have taken more photos to put attention on each coin. So we have 2 or 3 coins in each shot now!
The Halfcrown is AU and the Florin is barely VF. These are the same coins I had in April 2020 in that World dated coin thread.
These are all new, the 1/- is gVF like the 3d, the 6d is the stunner being fully EF
Really nice AU Halfpenny and average penny.
1945 saw moderate numbers, lower than usual for 6d, Florin and Halfcrown but nothing rare - no real rarities except a burnished penny - these were the British blanks issued dark, so hoarders would not collect shiny new pennies. They were meant for British pennies, but as New Zealand pennies were being made in the same facility - blanks got in the hoppers for the Kiwi coins (And are rarer given the UK issued about 100 million pennies in 45 and NZ around 4 million pennies, so a Kiwi burnished coin is rarer. My coin is not burnished and I am yet to see one, as they have to be AU and up, all of the 1945 pennies you usually see are F or VF.
Reverse shot - notice the range of conditions from high Fine to AU!
Thanks, my Kiwi collections are all coin by coin. Started with a basic collection of mostly Average used coins (Good - Very Good) and been upgrading them 1 or 2 at a time, no instant collections here!
As we head back, you will see some of the lesser quality pieces, the Halfcrowns and Florins are great, but I am still working on the others. A package containing 1943 and 1944 AU coins I bought last week has still not arrived and with lockdown I don't see it arriving before Friday.
And most of my upgrades are VF or gVF, New Zealand silver in EF and above is incredibly expensive, but I have a handful of the common dates in that condition.
The year coming up 1944, is full of scarce dates and you will see my first "average" silver coin!
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