The 1934 sixpences

Characteristics
Designation | X34M.2B
Mint | Melbourne
Mint mark | None
Mintage | 1,024,000

No sixpences were minted in the years 1929 to 1933 so the 1934 coin was the first one issued in the nineteen thirties. It occurs in two documented varieties distinguished by the position and orientation of the numerals in the date. Both Dean1and Clarke2 describe these as wide and narrow date varieties but this is a simplification. Neither is scarce but the narrow date variety is probably the more common one.

Reverse of 1934 sixpence
| X34M.2B.1
| X34M.2B.2

Close-up views of the date
| X34M-2B-1 3 and 4 are close together, 3 leans right
| X34M-2B-2 3 and 4 are further apart. 3 leans left.

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