Australian penny coins by the years

Penny 1911

Mint: London
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 3,768,000

 

Penny 1911

 

 

Penny 1912

Mint: Heaton & Son
Mint mark: H below lower scroll
Mintage: 3,600,000

 

The 1911 penny was struck at the Royal Mint in London but in 1912 the task of minting Australian pennies was sub-contracted to the private mint facility of Heaton & Son in Birmingham. The same obverse die was used for the London and Birmingham strikes but the reverse dies were different. The 1911 (London) reverse had 174 rim denticles but the 1912 (Birmingham) die sported 177.

 

Penny 1912

Penny 1912

 

 

Penny 1913

Mint: Obverse - London, Reverse - Birmingham
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 2,520,000

 

Penny 1913

 

 

Penny 1914

Mint: Obverse - London, Reverse - Birmingham
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 720,000

 

Penny 1914

 

 

Penny 1915

Mint: Obverse - London, Reverse - Birmingham
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 960,000

 

Penny 1915

 

 

Mint: Obverse - London, Reverse - Birmingham
Mint mark: H below lower scroll
Mintage: 1,320,000

 

Penny 1915

 

 

Penny 1916

Mint: Calcutta
Mint mark: I below lower scroll
Mintage: 3,324,000

 

The demands on the Royal Mint imposed by World War I meant that it could not fulfil all the coinage needs of the Australian government. At the time, the Australian branch mints in Sydney and Melbourne were not equipped to strike copper coinage and so the Royal Mint temporised by assigning the contract for Australian bronze coinage to the Calcutta branch mint.
New obverse and reverse tools were sent to Calcutta.

 

Penny 1916

 

 

Penny 1917

Mint: Calcutta
Mint mark: I below lower scroll
Mintage: 6,240,000

 

Penny 1917

 

 

Penny 1918

Mint: Calcutta
Mint mark: I below lower scroll
Mintage: 1,200,000

 

Penny 1918

 

 

Penny 1919

Mint: Melbourne
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 5,817,000

 

Penny 1919

 

 

Penny 1920

Mint: Melbourne
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 5,817,000

 

Penny 1920

 

 

Penny 1922

Mint: Melbourne and Perth
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 12,697,000

 

 

 

Penny 1924

Mint: Melbourne and Sydney
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 2,649,840 + 2,016,000

 

Penny 1924

 

 

Penny 1925

Mint: Melbourne
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 117,600

 

Penny 1925

 

 

Penny 1928

Mint: Melbourne
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 3,086,000

 

Penny 1928

 

 

Penny 1929

Mint: Melbourne
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 2,599,000

 

Penny 1929

 

 

Penny 1930

The 1930 penny is probably the most famous of all the Australian Commonwealth coins. Its existence was not known for some time after the coin was released into circulation.
According to an article titled "Notes on Australian Pre-decimal Coinage" by Bill Mullett published in the 1996 Journal of the Australian Numismatic Society, "The now famous 1930 penny was the result of experimental work undertaken to produce better pennies for the 1930s".
No pennies were ordered by the Treasury for 1930. The 1931 order did not specify a date to appear on the coins and so the good coins from the 1930 experimental work were available for distribution with the 1931 mint issue. It is not known how many 1930 pennies were struck. Estimates vary from around 2,000 to 10,000 with about 3,000 being the most commonly quoted figure. About 1,500 coins are being traded in the marketplace. The fame of this coin is responsible for its high price.
A 1930 penny in VF condition will fetch something close to $30,000 whereas an uncirculated 5/- Internment Camps token of which maybe 80 specimens exist, might fetch less than a tenth of that price

 

Penny 1930Penny 1930

 

 

Penny 1931

Mint: Melbourne
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 494,400

 

Penny 1931

 

 

Penny 1932

Mint: Melbourne
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 2,116,000

 

Penny 1932

 

 

Penny 1933

Mint: Melbourne
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 5,817,000

 

Penny 1933

 

 

Penny 1942

Mint: Perth
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 12,244,800

 

Penny 1942 Perth

 

 

Mint: Bombay
Mint mark: Dots before and after PENNY
Mintage: 9,000,007

 

Penny 1942 Bombay

 

 

Penny 1943

Australian pennies dated 1943 were minted in Melbourne, Perth and Bombay. The Melbourne and Perth issues were struck with dies made from the 1938 master tools and the only distinguishing feature is a small dot after the Y of PENNY on the Perth issue. The Bombay issue was first struck using dies made from the 1942 Bombay tools but apparently quite early in the year a new reverse master was made with less flamboyant rim embellishment and that tool was used to make working dies for the bulk of the 1943 striking.

 

Mint: Melbourne
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 11,017,200

 

Penny 1943 Melbourne

 

 

Mint: Perth
Mint mark: Dot after PENNY
Mintage: 33,086,400

 

Penny 1943 Perth

 

 

Mint: Bombay
Mint mark: Dots before and after PENNY
Mintage: 9,000,006

 

Penny 1943 Bombay

 

 

Penny 1944

Mint: Melbourne
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 2,450,400

 

Penny 1944 Melbourne

 

 

Mint: Perth
Mint mark: Dot after PENNY
Mintage: 27,830,400

 

Penny 1944 Perth

 

 

Penny 1945

Mint: Perth
Mint mark: Dot after PENNY
Mintage: 10,125,600

 

Perth

 

 

Penny 1946

Mint: Melbourne
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 363,600

 

Penny 1946

 

 

Penny 1947

Mint: Melbourne
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 6,759,600

 

Penny 1947 Melbourne

 

 

Mint: Perth
Mint mark: Dot after PENNY
Mintage: 4,490,400

 

 

Penny 1948

Mint: Melbourne
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 26,625,600

 

Penny 1948

 

 

Mint: Perth
Mint mark: Dot after PENNY
Mintage: 1,533,600

 

Penny 1948

 

 

Penny 1953

Mint: Melbourne
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 6,933,600

 

 

Mint: Perth
Mint mark: Dot after PENNY
Mintage: 6,202,800

 

 

Penny 1955

Mint: Melbourne
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 6,348,000

 

Penny 1955

 

 

Mint: Perth
Mint mark: Dot after PENNY
Mintage: 11,109,600

 

Penny 1955

 

 

Penny 1956

Mint: Melbourne
Mint mark: None
Mintage: 13,872,000

 

Penny 1956

 

 

Mint: Perth
Mint mark: Dot after PENNY
Mintage: 12,121,200

 

Penny 1956

 

 

Penny 1957

Mint: Perth
Mint mark: Dot after PENNY
Mintage: 15,773,200

 

Penny 1957

 

 

Penny 1960

Mint: Perth
Mint mark: Dot after PENNY
Mintage: 20,052,000

 

Penny 1960

 

 

Penny 1961

Mint: Perth
Mint mark: Dot after PENNY
Mintage: 32,868,000

 

Penny 1961

 

 

Penny 1962

Mint: Perth
Mint mark: Dot after PENNY
Mintage: 34,861,60

 

Penny 1962

 

 

Penny 1963

Mint: Perth
Mint mark: Dot after PENNY
Mintage: 37,234,700

 

Penny 1963

 

 

 

Other Australian coins

Coins before 1952

Brief catalog of crown coinage

Elizabeth II coins (1952-2022)

 

Florins by the years

Shillings types

Shillings by the years

Six pence types

Tree pence types

Penny types

Half Penny types

Half penny by the years

 

All commemorative coins

Commemorative 2 dollars

Commemorative 1 dollar

Commemorative 50 cents

Commemorative 20 cents