? The second One Pound design, dubbed the Adelaide Pound Type II, features crenulated inner circles on both faces and was used to mint 24,768 tokens until the closure of the assay office in February 1853. While this die was more successful, in later strikes, the crudeness can still be seen with much deterioration and strike flaws from contaminants visible in the later strikes.While only one die was used for the Type II Adelaide pound, it is unknown why or how far down the line, but ...
? 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 ...
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? The 1954 Sixpence was the second piece in the Queen Elizabeth II series and was the final issue of this short two year type before the obverse legend was modified. The year was produced at the Melbourne Mint to a total mintage of 7,672,000. This large mintage coupled with the discovery of a number of mint-state hordes makes this a very affordable year with piece easily obtainable into MS65 and even MS66. Population reports by PCGS show an extremely large number of mint-state ...
? This Commonwealth Games coin was the first Ten Dollar commemorative coin to be released by the Royal Australian Mint and was issued in 1982. This coin, struck into sterling silver was produced in commemoration of the 12th Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. The issue was produced in both specimen and proof with a total of approximately 200,000 coins produced. Industrial action at the time, meant that around 10,000 had to be struck at a Melbourne company called Stokes and Sons, ...