? Australia has played a significant and ongoing role in space technology and research and has made an important contribution to deep space tracking. Australia was also heavily involved in the Apollo 11 mission, which led to the first man ever to walk on the moon. The Year of Space Five Dollar coin was issued in 1992 as both an uncirculated business strike and as proof strikes in the normal aluminium bronze alloy and in silver. The item is a commemorative coin, which is intended ...
? 1922 was the first year in which the Perth mint assisted en masse in the production of Australian copper coins. This was due to the strong demand for circulating currency, in particular the lower denominations brought about by the roaring twenties. The Melbourne mint produced a total of 9,529,440 pennies while the Perth mint produced 3,626,400 from November 1921 to February 1923 . Of these, 208,800 were struck prior to the receipt of 1922 dies and can be assumed to ...
? King Edward VII ascended to the British throne in 1901 but it was not until 1902 that sovereigns were struck bearing his bust. Sovereigns were struck at all Australian branches of the Royal mint throughout his reign up until his death in 1910. Mintages throughout the period were generally high but a combination of the rough handling process at the mint and between banks, and the natural softness of gold, ensured that higher mint state examples have become virtually ...
? The 1918 Half Penny is a key date struck at the Calcutta Mint in India to a mintage of 1,440,000. The relatively small mintage has made the type quite scarce with less than a dozen examples graded in mint-state. The reverse of the coin features a small 'I' mint-mark located below the denomination and lower scroll on the reverse. India mint-mark on a 1918-I Half Penny. Despite very high mintage's in 1916 and 1917 Australia's demand for new Half Pennies ...
? This Basketball 50 Cent dodecagonal coin commemorates the XVII Commonwealth Games held in Melbourne during 2006. The reverse was designed by Wojciech Pietranik and features the artists impression of a basketball player dunking the ball whilst leaping into the air. It has the official Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games logo and the legend 50 XVII COMMONWEALTH GAMES. The obverse shows the traditional Ian Rank-Broadley portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, right-facing with tiara and earrings. ...
