Australia 1944S Shilling Reverse

1938 to 1963 Shilling

Designer: George Kruger Gray
Weight: 5.65 grams
Diameter: 23.5 mm
Mint: Melbourne 1938 – 1963, Perth 1946 only, San Francisco 1942 – 1944. There was also a pattern minted in London in 1937.

Minted 1938 to 1952 with King George VI obverse, then from 1953 to 1963 with Queen Elizabeth II obverse.
Silver composition is 92.5% from 1938 to 1945, with later mintages reduced to 50% silver. Mintages vary from just 760,000 in 1940 to 19,644,000 in 1952.

This is a popular design amongst Australian coin collectors, with the Ram’s head being used on later circulating and non circulating coins, such as the 1991 50 cent coin, the 2011 $1 coin and the 2000 Masterpieces in silver set.