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1 Penny - George V Kookaburra Pattern - Type 5a
| Issuer | Australia |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Pound (1788-1966) |
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| Obverse description | Uncrowned, draped bust of King George V facing left, rendered in high relief within the square field. The effigy is presented without a surrounding circle, occupying the central portion of the flan. The peripheral legend is arranged along the upper and side margins, with the date 1919 inscribed along the lower edge flanked by small decorative stops. The overall design style is characteristic of early Australian pattern coinage of the period. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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In 1919, the Australian government was actively exploring a domestically produced coinage to replace its reliance on British-struck pennies. Several pattern designs featuring the kookaburra were commissioned and struck in multiple metals and configurations — this silver example being among the more refined survivors of that experimental series. The kookaburra proposal ultimately failed; Australia returned to the familiar regal penny design, and the bird would not appear on circulating coinage for another decade, finally landing on the 1990 bullion dollar.