Lot 141
A rare mis-strike from the San Francisco Mint
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Notes:
- NGC AU58 A rare US Mint error, especially in this grade. During WWII the Australian Government was forced to call on the US mints in San Francisco and Denver to strike coins to overcome a shortage of circulating currency which was caused by the large number of American servicemen stationed there. It is a little known fact that no master or working dies were sent from Australia to the United States and that the coins that were struck were the product of dies manufactured by the American mints. A pantograph would have been used to produce coin models and hence dies from examples of circulating Australian coins. There is an obvious parrallel with the coins of the Philippines which were also struck during WWII by the Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco Mints to allay shortages caused by the large influx of US servicemen.
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