? The 1998 Royal Visit piece was issued as part of the 'Milestones' set in the Royal Australian Mint's Master Pieces in Silver collection. The reverse features the William Leslie Bowles reverse design used on the 1954 Florin. Leslie Bowles' initials can be found immediate above the date . The obverse features the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of HM Queen Elizabeth II with the legend
? On the first of April 1867 the Straits Settlements became a Crown Colony but it wasn't until 1871 that her first coins were struck with the copper being struck in 1872. The first ten cent was struck at the Royal mint in London. The reverse design features a partitioned ring design with 10 in the inner circle with the legend, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. TEN CENTS with the date following. The obverse features the young head portrait of Queen Victoria as designed by William Wyon.While a date set ...
? 1897 marked the first year where five cent pieces of the Straits Settlements were struck at both the Royal mint in London and the Heaton mint in Birmingham. While the combined striking by both the Royal and Heaton mints allowed for lower relative mintages for both pieces compared to surrounding years, the Heaton mint piece isn't particularly scarce with examples available right up to mint state grades. Coins struck at the Heaton mint can be differentiated by the presence ...
? 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 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. ...