? The Type II twenty 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 platypus design on the reverse. Devlin's initials can be found within a swirl near the platypus' foot. 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 1942-D Threepence was struck at the Denver Mint with a mintage of 16,000,000. In the same year a further 8,000,000 pieces were struck at the San Francisco Mint and another 528,000 at the Melbourne Mint. The Denver piece can be differentiated from the other varieties by a small 'D' mint-mark located below the right-most ribbon the reverse. The very large mintage means that the type is very affordable until around MS65 where prices and scarcity quickly rise. Denver 'D' mint-mark ...
? Howard Florey was born in Adelaide, Australia on the 24th September 1898 and died aged 69 in Oxford, England on the 21st February 1968. During his lifetime, he achieved what most men never thought possible. He became a pharmacologist and pathologist in Australia and while working alongside Alexander Fleming and Ernst Chain, discovered Penicillin. To mark this man's historic success, the Royal Australian Mint struck this commemorative one dollar. The reverse was designed by Vladimir Gottwald ...
? The 1951 florin is one of only two years struck bearing the Type II obverse featuring his majesty King George VI, the other being 1952. While a small number of bank rolls have surfaced, obtaining the coin in mint state can still be quite a challenge and if a higher mint state example is desired, a great deal of patience will be required. The date is usually relatively well struck up but most coins were sent up to Sydney by train before rolling resulting in coins often displaying numerous ...
? This one hundred fifty Dollar gold proof coin issued in 1998 was the fourth to be released from a series of nine entitled Floral Emblems of Australia. The set was released between the years of 1995 and 2003 with a coin featuring the floral emblem of each state as well as the Commonwealth, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. This particular coin features Sturts Desert Pea, which is the floral emblem of South Australia. Each emblem of the entire series is ...