? The George V Penny series, lasting throughout George V's reign from 1911 to 1936, features a partitioned, circular reverse design with COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA around the outer ring with the year at the bottom and ONE PENNY within the inner ring. The obverse features the crowned bust of King George V facing to the left and the legend, GEORGIVS V D.G. BRITT : OMN : REX F. D. IND : IMP . Like most George V series, this a very popular series to collect. In lower grade, all dates can be acquired ...
? This Five Dollar silver proof coin is the second of six that make up the 2001 Masterpieces in Silver Set, commemorating the Federation. As 2001 marked 100 years since the joining together of the individual British colonies to form the federation of Australia, the Royal Australian Mint celebrated with a number of specially designed coin collections and series to pay tribute to the historical event. This particular series focuses on the men and women that paid a significant contribution ...
? The 1940 half penny is one of the easier dates in the series to acquire in mint state due to a number of hoards surfacing containing premium mint state coins. Typically these coins had good colour and graded around the MS63-64 level so acquiring the date above MS64RB can become quite challenging. The legend and rims are almost always strongly struck up giving the appearance of a deep strike due to the maturing Melbourne minting process but the obverse often exhibits a central ...
? This one hundred Dollar gold proof coin issued in 1995 was the first to be released from a series of nine entitled Floral Emblems of Australia. The set was released between the years of 1995 and 2003 with a coin featuring the floral emblem of each state as well as the Commonwealth, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. This particular coin features the Waratah, which is the floral emblem of New South Wales. Each emblem of the entire series is represented ...
? The 1856 Alternate Reverse Half Sovereign, first identified in a Spink Auction in 1981 but incorrectly attributed as having the 1853 pattern reverse is one of the more interesting varieties to come out of the early days of the Sydney mint. Its origin and purpose is a mystery but given the Sydney mint's constant shortage of dies as evidenced by the amount of tooling done to extend their working life in many of the early years, it is likely ...
