? The Half Cent series was struck, much like the other copper issues starting in 1872 at the Heaton mint in Birmingham with a large initial mintage of 5.6 million to satisfy the initial demand for smaller circulating currency for the newly founded colony. The issue features a partitioned circular reverse with the legend STRAITS SETTLEMENTS HALF CENT in the outer edge followed by the date and 1/2 in the middle and an obverse with the effigy of Queen Victoria facing to the left and the legend ...
The George V threepence series, lasting throughout George V's reign from 1911 to 1936, features the Australian coat of arms with ADVANCE AUSTRALIA across the scroll on the reverse, THREEPENCE up the top, and the year of issue down the bottom. 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 Hong Kong fifty cent was struck at the Royal Mint in London following the closure of the Hong Kong mint. The obverse features the Leonard Wyon effigy of King Edward VII along with the legend EDWARD VII KING & EMPEROR. The reverse has the legend HONG KONG along with Chinese characters depicting the date, denomination and country of origin. Contained within an inner circle is the denomination 50 CENTS. The official currency of Hong Kong was the British Pound although it was not ...
? The Royal Australian Mint has produced a silver kangaroo piece every year since 1993. This piece, issued in 2006, was designed by Wojciech Pietranik and depicts a bounding kangaroo with joey against the background of a stylised map of Australia. The reverse also features the denomination
? The 1887 pattern two pound and five pound coins were struck originally to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria on the 20th of June 1887. While the Royal mint London produced many thousand of both denominations, the Sydney branch of the Royal mint produced a very small number of each denoted by an S on the exergue line above the date. S mintmark of a Sydney mint strike