? In 2016 the Royal Australian Mint released a full set of six pieces to commemorate fifty years since the introduction of decimal currency in Australia. The obverse of each of these pieces includes an internal Australian pre-decimal coin design underneath an Ian Rank-Broadley portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II. This ten cent piece includes the Kruger Gray's three wheat stalks design that was used on Australian threepence, this internal coin features the legend
? This Olympic Basketball commemorative coin was part of a set released following the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. They depict 28 forms of Olympic sports. The obverse shows an Ian Rank-Broadley portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II, right-facing, crowned with necklace and earrings. It also had the legend ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2000. The reverse was designed by Philip Holliday and shows two basketball players in action with the official Sydney 2000 logo with five rings. It also had ...
? In 1942 the Australian Penny was struck at both the Perth and Bombay Mint. There is one Perth variety which can be identified by a small dot after the Y in 'PENNY' and two Bombay varieties; both featuring dots before the 'P' and after the 'Y' in Penny and only one featuring a small 'I' mint -mark under the obverse effigy. The Perth variety was struck to a mintage of 12,244,800 which was a reasonably large mintage for the series. The type is quite affordable across most grades, ...
? The Sydney mint reverted to the Imperial St George and Shield designs in 1871 with the Shield design intended for export to other colonies. The third reverse design features a medium length tail as opposed to the long tail used since 1871 as shown in the illustration below: This type differs from the Type V St George reverse design by having a narrow truncation at the base of the bust of her Majesty Queen Victoria. The origin mint of this issue can be determined from the mintmark ...
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