Australia ½ penny 1942 I (long denticles) 

• 1942 
• KM# 41 
• Australia 
• 0,50 penny 

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Coins

Australia ½ penny 1942 I (long denticles)

1942

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Kruger-Gray, George Edward, Paget, Thomas Humphrey

Fauna (Animals), Kangaroos

5.7

25.6

1.3

AUSTRALIA KG 1942 · HALF PENNY · *

GEORGIVS VI D:G:BR:OMN:REX F:D:IND:IMP.

Plain

KM# 41

The Melbourne Mint also sent a coin or a die of its modified 1939 'Roo' Halfpenny to Calcutta which was used to model a new reverse for a late run of the 1942 I Halfpenny. Like the second 'Roo' reverse, the later 1942 I halfpennies had a single foot on the 'Y' of 'HALFPENNY' but now with the kangaroo shallower in definition and showing a lidded eye. In modelling this reverse, the denticles were made larger and were reduced in number from 106 to 104. These additional changes constitute a new reverse type which accounts for approximately 50,000 of the mintage of the 1942 I halfpennies and was used exclusively on the entire mintage of the 1943 I Halfpenny. This die still existed in 1964 when it as re-polished and used to produce the 1942 I Proof Halfpenny re-strikes.