The 1915 shillings

While the responsibility for coining the 1915 Australian shilling fell to the Royal Mint in London, part of the job of striking the shillings was sub-contracted to the Heaton & Sons mint in Birmingham. The Heaton coins can be distinguished by the H mint mark on the reverse above the date.

S15L.2A
Mint: London
Mintmark: None
Mintage: 800,000

S15H.2A
Mint: Heaton & Sons, Birmingham
Mint mark: H above date
Mintage: 500,000

The London mint coins occur in two varieties which differ in the width of the date. There are no varieties reported for the Heaton coins but I would not be at all surprised if the same variations occurred in those.

Reverse of 1915 shilling
| S15L.2A.1 Narrow date.
| S15L.2A.2 Wide date.
| S15H.2A.1 Heaton mint issue.

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