Silver Australian Shillings

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@lordtimoty shared some cool silver Australian coins the other day so I figured to share two cool silver Australian shillings I recently acquired:

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The first which is from 1958 features on the front side Queen Elizabeth and reads

+ELIZABETH·II·DEI·GRATIA·REGINA·F:D: M · G ·

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ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA FIDEI DEFENSATRIX / Elizabeth II by the Grace of God, Queen, Defender of the Faith (LMAO!)

whereas the second from 1946 features GEORGE IV and reads

GEORGIVS VI D:G:BR:OMN:REX F:D:IND:IMP for

George VI by the Grace of God, King of all the British territories, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India

On the back side both of them feature a Ram's head

Each coin is about the size of a euro coin and has 5.65 g of 0.500 silver

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And here's a comparison to the rest of silver Australian coins I own, 50 cents from 1966 and six pence from 1962:

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All 4 have a total of 17.689 g silver. Neat!

More precious coins and shit

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They're looking ridiculously new and even worth more than the price. Wow, no holes this time.

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Australian silver coin always looking cool and obvious. Quite still surprising they still look worth much even after their lifespan

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Cool collection you've got there, man 😎 👍

Why did you put 'LMAO' in a bracket after 'defender of the faith '🌚

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Cause its cringy and fun 😂

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Hahahahah, and she doesn't give a rat's arse about the faith, huh?

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Very cool. You wouldn't happen to have any silver Japanese coins, would you?

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Until @trumpman does, you'll have to do with my Japanese silver in one of my old posts. They are also sprinkled about the comments section of the post. Domo Arigato ⛩

And yes, I swing a Functional Iaido Katana.

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The difference is noticed when comparing the two coins together

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Pretty cool! I think my dad may have a couple of those as
Well! My grandfather had a coin collection which my dad inherited. So I guess I’ll get it eventually. But my son did an economics project on currency, specifically old coins and how currency began. It was such a fun project to do using all my grandfathers old coins from the collection. He even had a couple very old DEIC coins from Indonesia. So fascinating.

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These Australia coins are Vintage. They have a nice color to definitely worth many times more than it's silver value !

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Emperor of India doesn't sound as good now as it did 60 years ago :)) I bet the old hag misses the good old imperialistic days

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I think you tagged the wrong person.

Also, nice coins and you have a lot of silver. Too much that I can't keep track.

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Morning Trumpy, I do love the Shillings!
In 1991, the Ram's head made another appearance on the circulating 1991 50 cent piece. The coin was a celebration of 25 years of decimal currency.

You know what else I love, The Royal Australian Mint is known as the RAM.

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