? In 1940 the Australian Penny was struck at both the Melbourne and Perth branches of the Royal Mint. The Melbourne Mint piece features no mint-mark while the Perth Mint piece can be differentiated by a small dot between 'KG' - the designers initials, which are located on the right of the reverse . The Melbourne Mint produced 4,075,200 pieces which was substantially larger than the 1,113,600 pieces struck at the Perth Mint. As a result the Melbourne variety is reasonably affordable in ...
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? The 1925 penny is a key date of the penny series, after Australia's glamour coin, the 1930 penny. A total of 117,600 pennies were struck at the Melbourne mint that year, along with 832,000 pennies at the Sydney mint indicating a total mintage of 949,600 coins. The soon to close Sydney Mint however, struck pennies that year using 1924 dies and consequently only 117,600 pennies were struck with the date of 1925 making it the 2nd scarcest business strike penny . ...
? 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. ...
? To celebrate 20 years since the release of the one dollar coin the Royal Australian Mint has released a six coin set as part of the Masterpieces in Silver collection. The unique collection features reissues of original test pieces, unreleased designs, and other piece relevant to the development of the one dollar coin. This large Kangaroo piece is a reissue of the iconic one dollar design that has circulated since 1984. It is the first time ...