Summary

Australia
1/2 Penny 1912 H
Mint: Heaton & Sons
This is a specimen strike.

Physical Description

A bronze coin (25.5 mm diameter with plain edge) featuring a crowned and robed bust of George V facing left; around, GEORGIVS V D. G. BRITT: OMN: REX F. D. IND: IMP: ; below bust in small lettering the artist's initials B.M. The reverse features, within a circle of beads, the words ONE HALF PENNY in three lines above a plain scroll (the mint mark H is below this scroll); around the circle of beads, COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA . 1912 .

Obverse Description

Crowned and robed bust of George V facing left; around, GEORGIVS V D. G. BRITT: OMN: REX F. D. IND: IMP: ; below bust in small lettering the artist's initials B.M.

Reverse Description

At centre within a circle of beads, the words ONE HALF PENNY in three lines above a plain scroll (the mint mark H is below this scroll); around the circle of beads, COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA . 1911 .

Edge Description

Plain

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