? The Ian-Rank Broadley portrait of her majesty Queen Elizabeth II was introduced to the fifty cent in 1999 providing a more mature face of the Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Other than this, the Type III Fifty Cent is identical to previous issues with Australia's coat of arms on the reverse around the digit 50. A number of different strike types were issued along side the standard business strike, specimen strike and proof strike. From 2001, the Royal Australian mint intermittently ...
? James Brooke was born in India and served in the Bengal Army. When he was wounded, he resigned his commission, bought a 142 ton schooner and sailed to the Malay Archipelago. It was here that he met Pangeran Muda Hashim and together, they crushed a rebellion which gave the throne back to the Sultan of Brunei. The Sultan subsequently decided to give Brooke the Sarawak governor position as reward for his assistance. He was officially appointed as Rajah of Sarawak in 1842 by Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien ...
?Image from: Heritage Auctions . Victoria gold 1/2 Sovereign 1892 MS64 NGC. '2016 January 12 - 13 World Coins - Dallas #3045'. Retrieved from https://coins.ha.com/itm/great-britain/great-britain-victoria-gold-1-2-sovereign-1892-ms64-ngc-/a/3045-34027.s?type=NGC3045
? The Type III twenty cent piece was put into circulation in 1999 and continues to be regularly issued today. It features the new Ian Rank-Broadly portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse with the same Stuart Devlin platypus design on the reverse . Devlin's initials can be found within a wave to the left of the platypus' foot and Rank-Broadly's initials are located below the the obverse portrait. A number of additional striketypes were issued along ...
?Image from: Heritage Auctions . Victoria, sovereign, 1876, young head l. 'Auction 20 26 Sep 2018'. Retrieved from https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=2683&lot=134