? The 1994 Dollar was struck to commemorate ten years since the introduction of the one dollar coin in 1984. It features the one dollar note and the mob of roos one dollar coin on the reverse with 1984 across the top and 1994 across the bottom. The obverse features the standard Raphael Maklouf portrait of her majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The coin was not issued for circulation but rather only issued as part of the mint your own dollar series showing the C, S, or M mintmarks for Canberra, ...
? The 1933 Florin is a semi-key date in the George V Florin series. The piece was produced with the relatively low mintage of 488,000. Between 1929 and 1932 Australia had been experiencing the Great Depression which resulted in nearly thirty-two percent unemployment during its height in 1932. These economic circumstances greatly reduced spending and therefore the need for circulating currency. By 1933 the worst of the depression seemed to have passed and although the mintage ...
? 1879 is the last year that half sovereigns were struck before standardised designs were introduced by Australian mints, though the London Mint continued to use varying designs from previous years in 1880 and the Melbourne Mint issued 1882 Melbourne Half Sovereigns with a truncated bust. The design is similar to the 1877-1882 narrow ribbon issue from the Melbourne Mintbutthe obverse relief is slightly more pronounced with some minor tilting of the portrait.The issue was struck at the Sydney ...
? The Type II ten cent was issued from 1985 up until 1998 and featured the new Raphael Maklouf portrait of her majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse, with Stuart Devlin's superb lyrebird design on the reverse. Devlin's initials can be found near the foot of the lyrebird. The series was struck exclusively at the Royal Australian Mint in a cupro-nickel alloy with an additional silver proof produced in 1991 as part of the year's Masterpieces in Silver set. ...
? The reverse ram design continued into this type right up until the introduction of decimal currency with the conclusion of the shilling series in 1963. This type features a slightly reworded obverse legend, ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA F:D , due to the public outcry that the previous type omitted FIDEI DEF .Several mint rolls have appeared from all dates in the 1960s, a few 1959 rolls, and a substantial hoard of 1957 shillings has turned up . All other dates are quite ...