The 1925 penny

All Australian pennies dated 1925 were minted in Melbourne. The official mintage in 1925 was 940,800 but according to John Sharples24 only 117,600 pieces actually bore the 1925 date. The remaining 832,200 were struck in Sydney in its last year of production. The Sydney mint simply used up its supply of 1924 dies.

A minor variety illustrated here is the "broken N".

> Mintage
> Designation | P25M.1A |
> Obverse | London |
> Reverse | London
> Mint | Melbourne
> Mintage | 117,600

Reverses
| P25M.1A

Broken N variety
| The picture on the left shows a fairly minor variety of the 1925 penny. The first leg of the second N has a gap in the middle and is probably caused by a filled die but may be the result of a damaged punch.

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