The 1924 pennies

Australian pennies dated 1924 were minted in Melbourne and Sydney. The coins exhibit two die pairings and a common variety.

> Mintage
> Designation |  | P24MS.1A |  | P24S.1C |
> Obverse |  | London |  | Calcutta |
> Reverse |  | London |  | London
> Mint | Melbourne | Sydney | M+S | Sydney
> Mintage | 2,649,840 | 2,016,000 | 4,665,840 | (included)

The variety with the Calcutta obverse is quite scarce, probably fewer than 3% of coins were minted with that die and according to John Sharples, all of those are believed to have been struck at the Sydney Mint.

Reverses
| P24MS.1A and P24S.2A All 1924 pennies have the same reverse.

Filled 4 date variety
| The pictures on the left show a common variation of the 1924 penny. The protrusion on the die which punched the hole in the 4 was fairly thin and had a tendency to flatten so that the hole became a shallow depression. As the coins struck with the flattened die circulated, the 4 wore down to the level of the depression and so became a solid block. The top picture shows a normal 4 with a well-defined hole, probably struck from a fresh die. The second picture shows a shallow-hole 4 partly worn down whereas the bottom picture shows a completely filled 4.

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