? The Half Cent series was struck, much like the other copper issues starting in 1872 at the Heaton mint in Birmingham with a large initial mintage of 5.6 million to satisfy the initial demand for smaller circulating currency for the newly founded colony. The issue features a partitioned circular reverse with the legend STRAITS SETTLEMENTS HALF CENT in the outer edge followed by the date and 1/2 in the middle and an obverse with the effigy of Queen Victoria facing to the left and the legend ...
?Image from: A.H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd . Victoria, Sovereign, 1861, C of VICTORIA struck over rotated C. 'Auction 73 8 May 2012'. Retrieved from https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=290&lot=88
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? During the Australian Gold Rush the Royal Mint allowed for the construction of a local mint in Sydney to process the raw gold into Sovereigns and Half Sovereigns. By the 1870's the Victorian goldfields were producing such large quantities of gold that a second mint was opened in Melbourne in 1872. The Royal Australian Mint has commemorated 130 years since since this event with the release of a Melbourne Mint piece. The reverse design includes a depiction of the entrance ...
? Remembrance Day is a day to remember those who served to protect us. It is commemorated unerringly each year to remember our fallen heroes. The Royal Australian Mint has chosen to remember this occasion with a two dollar commemorative coin of its own. The reverse, designed by Wojciech Pietranik, shows a single vibrant red poppy in the centre of some chosen words. The words are REMEMBRANCE and upside down are the immortal words LEST WE FORGET. The legend reads