?Image from: Baldwin's of St. James's . Victoria, sovereign, 1880, WW buried in narrow truncation. 'Auction 20 26 Sep 2018'. Retrieved from https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=2683&lot=149
? The Centenary Florin celebrates the hundredth anniversary of the state of Victoria, 1834 and the settlement of the city of Melbourne, 1835. It is the scarcest commemorative with a total mintage of 75,000 and only 54,000 being sold, the remainder being returned to the Melbourne mint to for re-melting. They were sold for an issue price of 3/- to help fund the Melbourne Centenary celebrations. The coin is often sold with a Foy & Gibson bag, from either Melbourne ...
? The Melbourne mint opened its doors in 1872 but it wasn't until 1873 that the first half sovereigns were struck with an M mintmark underneath the shield. A total of 165,034 half sovereigns were struck in 1873 and unlike the early Sydney mint designs, the Melbourne mint had a standardised reverse design throughout the series though the obverse had three different variants. Reverse: Melbourne mint 'M' mintmark directly below the shield and between two rosettes ...
? The obverse of this coin one cent contains the legend HONG KONG 1862 with an inner circle dividing the denomination ONE CENT top and bottom. Between this and the legend is a wreath. The legend on the reverse reads HONG KONG 1862, with inner wreath and ONE CENT in the centre. The heads side of the coinThe inscription around the inner edge of the coinThe tails side of the coin
? The enigmatic 1856/5 overdate is one of the more difficult overdates of the Sydney mint series. The overdate isn't as clearly visible as other issues such as the 1861/0 overdate, features hints of the loop of the 5 on the lower-right hand corner of the 6 but otherwise is chiefly identified by the presence of a dot after the date, a variety otherwise unique to the 1855. Dot after the date on an 1856/5 Overdate Half Sovereign ...