Description

1950 Australia Threepence – King George VI
Small silver pre-decimal coin featuring three wheat stalks on the reverse and King George VI on the obverse. Minted in Melbourne.

The obverse of the coin shows the bare (uncrowned) head of King George VI facing left. Below the neck truncation in small letters, the artist’s initials HP (for [Thomas] Humphrey Paget). Around, the monarch’s legend: GEORGIVS VI D : G : BR : OMN : REX FIDEI DEF.. Translated from Latin: George the Sixth, by the Grace of God, King of all the Britains, Defender of the Faith.