?Image from: Baldwin's of St. James's . Victoria, sovereign, 1880, WW buried in narrow truncation. 'Auction 20 26 Sep 2018'. Retrieved from https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=2683&lot=149
? The Centenary Florin celebrates the hundredth anniversary of the state of Victoria, 1834 and the settlement of the city of Melbourne, 1835. It is the scarcest commemorative with a total mintage of 75,000 and only 54,000 being sold, the remainder being returned to the Melbourne mint to for re-melting. They were sold for an issue price of 3/- to help fund the Melbourne Centenary celebrations. The coin is often sold with a Foy & Gibson bag, from either Melbourne ...
? The Melbourne mint opened its doors in 1872 but it wasn't until 1873 that the first half sovereigns were struck with an M mintmark underneath the shield. A total of 165,034 half sovereigns were struck in 1873 and unlike the early Sydney mint designs, the Melbourne mint had a standardised reverse design throughout the series though the obverse had three different variants. Reverse: Melbourne mint 'M' mintmark directly below the shield and between two rosettes ...
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? Struck along side the Perth mint half penny and penny, and the threepence, the 1964 penny is the last pre-decimal coin to be struck in Australia. With 10 million pieces struck to serve just two years of circulation, numerous unused bank rolls of 1964 pennies have surfaced making the coin very common in mint state . Sourcing the date with full mint brilliance can be quite easy although the date does pose quite a challenge if desired in MS65 and is very rare in MS66.