1915 Shilling Variety?

To be honest I don't see a difference in the width of the date. Anyway the following website shows both varieties I think the difference between the wide and narrow date is a way to tell between the 2nd 1 leaning right and the 2nd 1 leaning left variety?(fred levers reference book)
http://www.triton.vg/S15.html
While this variety at the moment has only been confirmed on coins with the 2nd 1 leaning right which eliminates the narrow and wide date variety as an influence on this variety? by the way this would have to confirm the use of a second master die for the 1915 shilling mintage because its a variety with the nine which isn't punched onto the single dies but only on the master dies? correct me if I am wrong don't want to go of believing one thing when its wrong.

p.s. I don't think it is a different spacing more misaligned got to this opinion by looking at the first two pictures of mine comparing the alignment of the 9's

I analysed the narrow and wide date shillings and both have the same alignment of the nine (normal) so it cant be just another indicator of these varieties and is in fact an entirely new variety. Here are the pictures proving this:
Narrow Date

Wide Date

You are certainly keeping yourself busy OMF.I have some
1915 threepences which I should check on some time

Hm, interesting that it appears on other denominations too.

Maybe The Royal Mint was solely responsible for die production?

Yeah, hard to say. I'm sure looking at The Royal Mint's and the Heaton Mint's log-books would be a worthwhile exercise but that may not be so easy.

good point nealeffendi but I don't think it is a case of individually dating the dies because if they were all subject to this then how come three quarters of the entire mintage has the exact same alignment with only one quarter showing the variety. Anyway an interesting point is that the mint would create a die with only the century and then take copies of that and then place the decade on the copy then take another copy and then put the last part of the date this is then the master die for that year with all of the working dies for that year will be taken of the one master die.

Sometimes they sink another master die with an slightly different or misaligned last digit e.g. 1931 drop, 1915 shilling 2nd 1 right or left and the 1946 florin large 6 but this is a case of a misaligned decade digit which is one step above the Master die leading to the conclusion of at the very least three different master dies for the year (1915 second 1 leaning right, 1915 second 1 leaning left and 1915 9 leaning right.) It is most probable that the Heaton Mint only had dies sent from the London Mint (no government mint would give the tools, mean or knowledge to produce dies to a private mint.)

Nealeffendi I think there were 4 different dies used that year according to my fred levers variety book they are London 1931, Indian 1931, Indian 1931 dropped and London 1931 dropped and I think you are referring to the difference between the London and Indian ones although there are 1931 London without the dropped ones and with the dropped one. Sorry if it came across the wrong way.

Anyway for the shillings I am quite sure it is around 81% (typed 3/4 my mistake it was a long night) been analysing quite a few of the coins here is my breakdown of the mintage of the 1915 shillings in to their varieties. By the way the first two varieties the 1915 second 1 left and right show absolutely no change in the alignment of the 9.
1915 2nd 1 left 55%
1915 2nd 1 right 26%
1915 2nd 1 right and misaligned 9 19%
And on the point of illusory it is noticeable that the 9 does change its alignment please look at my first two pictures in my first post and look particularly at the nines they speak for themselves and anyway I have used the exact same technique to determine the variety on the coins which show it as those that don't so I have been consistent.

Oh sorry read it the wrong way I should really get some sleep