? 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 first St George design depicts Pistrucci's St George slaying the dragon with his designer's initials B.P. in large characters on the right below the exergue. The design would only last for half a year with the Sydney mint switching to a small B.P. design later in the year making the large BP scarce. Large BP ...
? The 2009 Citizenship coin was issued to commemorate sixty years since the enactment of the Australian Citizenship Act. The reverse, designed by Wojciech Pietranik, features the faces of seven new Australians along with the legend
? The 1887 half sovereigns come in a number of varieties distinguishable by the place of manufacture which can be Sydney, Melbourne or London and by the positioning of the obverse designer's initials, JEB. The mint can be determined by a mintmark , or absence of underneath the shield on the reverse. An S indicates this issue, the Sydney mint, an M indicates Melbourne while the London mint issues do not display a mintmark. S mintmark for Sydney ...
? In 1711 the Dutch East India Company dispatched the trading ship Zuytdorp to Batavia , the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The ship was lost on its journey and its fate was unknown until the wreck was discovered off the West Coast of Australia. Among the wreckage was found a horde of silver coins marked with the date 1711. The Royal Australian Mint has released this one dollar piece as an interesting historical piece commemorating a century since the Zuytdorp vanished. ...
? 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 forth reverse design features a short length tail as opposed to the long tail used since 1871 and the medium tail used since 1874 as in the illustration below: Long tail Medium tail Short tail This type differs from the Type V St Georgereversedesign by having a narrow truncation ...