Australian 1921 Square Penny

[paulfrasercollectibles 0]

Hi,

Hopefully I get the link working this time...

Australian square penny

An Australian 1921 cupro-nickel pattern penny is coming up for auction at Spink. There's lots of strong coins in the auction and, as its a world sale, something for everyone. Read the preview then take a look for yourselves.

Personally, I can't believe they didn't see and issue with a square coin before there were any examples struck. Nice coin though and an interesting collecting area.

Joe

[scott 129]

cool, i'm guessing they would use similar sized planchets as ceylon and malaya

don't like the design though

[Mr T 169]

Yeah, they were 18mm like the Ceylon 5c.

Some of them had not so good obverses either: