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1 Shilling - George V
| Issuer | New Guinea |
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| Year | 1935-1936 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse lettering | TERRITORY OF NEW GUINEA ·ONE SHILLING·1935· |
| Edge | Reeded |
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New Guinea's silver coinage of the 1930s was issued under the Australian mandate administration, a League of Nations arrangement following Germany's loss of its Pacific territories after World War I. The shilling series was struck at the King's Norton Metal Company in Birmingham — not at an Australian mint — and produced in quantities small enough that the entire circulating coinage of the territory was almost incidental to the local economy, where shell money and trade goods remained practical currency in many districts.
The 1935–1936 dating reflects the final years of George V's reign; the king died in January 1936.