Yearly Archives: 2015

1966 Decimal Currency Changeover Coin Display Board

At the changeover to decimal currency on February 14th 1966 the Decimal Currency Board provided all sorts of advertising and educational information to people, banks, businesses about how to cope with and use the new currency to ensure a smooth

Posted in Australian Decimal Changeover

2015 $2 Red ANZAC Poppy Counterstamp Coin

The Royal Australian Mint announced last week that they’d be moving one of their portable presses into a public area of the mint and applying a poppy counterstamp to 2015 $2 circulation Lest We Forget coins. These $2 coins with

Posted in Coin News, Collecting Coins

2015 Sydney ANDA/APTA Coin, Banknote and Stamp Show Report

The 2015 Sydney ANDA/APTA Coin, Banknote and Stamp Show was held in Sydney in the last couple of days (Friday October 9 and Saturday October 10).  It was located in Lower Town Hall in the middle of Sydney’s CBD, just across

Posted in Coin News

NAV 2015 Centenary of Gallipoli Medallions

Above you can see a silver medallion issued by the Numismatic Association of Victoria to commemorate the Centenary of Gallipoli. Just 20 of these 50.3mm diameter medallions were struck in 999 fine silver and each weighs 66.5 grams. This medallion

Posted in Medals

2015 Commonwealths Longest Reigning Monarch Commemorative Coin Design

September ninth brings a special milestone in the history of the British monarchy. On this date Queen Elizabeth II will surpass Queen Victoria as the longest reigning monarch of 63 years and 216 days. As part of the British Commonwealth

Posted in Coin News, Collecting Coins

Perth Mint Off Metal Trial Strikes – What are they?

Update 4 – 1kg 1993 Platinum Uniface Koala Facsimile Coin Imaged Update 3 – Problems with Perth Mint Advertising Pieces for more than 20 years! Update 2 – We’ve been in contact with the Perth Mint, mystery solved! Update 1

Posted in Coin News, Collecting Coins

2015 Sydney Netball World Cup S Counterstamp Error

A Blog reader emailed us after reading our article about the quality of the S counterstamp Netball 20c coins. He explained he obtained two coins both depicting the lustre break at the base of the Queen’s neck and the strike

Posted in Error Coins

2015 Netball 20 Cent Counterstamp Variations

We got 10 of the 2015 20c Netball S counterstamps a couple of days ago. The quality of the coins isn’t the best that we’ve seen from the RAM in recent times but we’ve had a closer look at the

Posted in Collecting Coins, Error Coins

Mint Releases first Counterstamped 20 Cent – Netball World Cup 2015 20c

In their never ending quest to find more products to sell to collectors the Royal Australian Mint is going to apply a counterstamp to the 2015 Netball World Cup 20 cent coin. Counterstamping coins is an easy way to “add

Posted in Coin News

Million Numbered Banknotes

Between 1913 and 1971 each Australian banknote prefix had a maximum of one million notes printed. These started at XX 000001 and in a complete serial run ended at the millionth note XX 1000000. Not all serial numbers however had

Posted in Banknotes

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