? In 1910 the first coinage was issued featuring the name of the Commonwealth of Australia. To commemorate a century since this important event in Australian numismatic history the Royal Australian Mint has released a special one dollar design. This reverse was designed by Vladimir Gottwald who has recreated the the portraits of the four monarchs who have appeared on Australian coinage from 1910 to 2010. The four monarchs - Queen Elizabeth II, King George VI, King George V, and King Edward ...
? The student design commemorative issue 50 cent coin had a circulation of over 10 million. Following a long search the winning student, John Serrano, designed the reverse which shows a wombat, lorikeet and a koala along with his own initials JS. The design was then sculpted by Vladimir Gottwald to enable it to be minted. The denomination 50 was also present. The reverse features an Ian Rank-Broadley portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II, right-facing with a crown. It also has the legend ELIZABETH ...
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?Image from: A.H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd . Victoria, Sovereign, 1860, curvy rounded 6 with bulbous top. 'Auction 79 8 May 2013'. Retrieved from https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=452&lot=1004
? The Kangaroo design continued into this type right until the introduction of decimal currency with the conclusion of the penny series in 1964. This type features a slightly reworded obverse legend, ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA F:D , which was modified after public outcry that the previous type omitted FIDEI DEF . All dates in the series are easy to acquire in mint state , though the 1959 plain from the Melbourne mint is quite scarce. Finding any date beyond MS64 is a challenge, ...