Stamp Desk / Pounds and dollars
Australia, 1913 (½d, green)
A kangaroo standing on the outline map of a continent.
Illustration of a historical stamp for learning, shown at screen size. Not valid for postage.
How to read it
AUSTRALIA across the top, and a kangaroo on the map of the continent.
- 1AUSTRALIA
- 2HALF PENNY
- Inscription
- AUSTRALIA · POSTAGE · HALF PENNY
- Meaning
- The country name across the top and the value in words, half a penny.
- Issued by
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Today
- Australia Flag of Australia
- Year
- 1913. The Kangaroo and Map design and this value were first issued in 1913; the specimen may be a later printing.
- Made by
- Blamire Young (designer); Commonwealth Stamp Printing Office under J. B. Cooke (printing organization)
One fact
The green halfpenny was the lowest value of Australia’s first national stamps, the Kangaroo and Map series of 1913.
Source and public-domain rule
Australia, Crown copyright, more than 50 years. A government (Crown) stamp of 1913: Crown copyright in Australia lasts 50 years, so it ended long ago. Copyright in a work made or first published by or under the direction or control of the Commonwealth or a State (the Crown), such as a government postage stamp, lasts 50 years (Copyright Act 1968, ss. 176, 177 and 180). The colonial issues of Tasmania and New South Wales are older still. Applies to issuers au, ts and nw, published before 1976. Legal sources: Copyright Act 1968 (Australia), compilation of 2 April 2026, ss. 176–180.
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