? 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 ...
? 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 ...
? In 1951 the Royal Mint in London produced 18,000,000 Pennies for Australia. In the same year the Melbourne Mint produced a further 21,240,000 pieces and the Perth Mint an additional 12,888,000. The London variety can also be distinguished form the other varieties by a small 'PL' mint-mark located along the rim to the right of the denomination 'PENNY.' PL is an abbreviation of pecunia londinii or percussa londinio . London 'PL' mint-mark on a 1951-PL Penny. ...
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? Holey dollar and Dump is the name given to coins that were separated by punching out the centres and using both pieces as currency. It was used in the early history of two British settlements, Prince Edward Island and New South Wales. The Royal Australian Mint decided to strike this commemorative issue which was designed in-house in a copy design of the original. The centre section has the Royal Crown and the legend NEW SOUTH WALES 1813. The outer section has a Spanish design with ...