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1 Shilling - George V 4th type
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 1927-1936 |
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| Value | 1 Shilling (1/20) |
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| Obverse lettering | GEORGIVS V DEI GRA:BRITT:OMN:REX (Translation: George the Fifth by the Grace of God King of all the Britains) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The fourth type shilling was introduced in 1927 as part of a broader redesign of British silver coinage, with Bertram Mackennal's obverse paired against a new reverse by George Kruger Gray. That same year saw the entire silver series overhauled — the first substantive redesign since the accession issues of 1911. The .500 fineness had already been fixed by the Coinage Act of 1920, a direct consequence of silver's wartime price spike making full sterling coins worth more as metal than currency.
The series ran until George V's death in January 1936, making the final-year pieces among the shorter-struck runs of the type.