So I got this in my email yesterday and thought it was pretty neat. Haven't seen a mention of it yet so I figured I would post it in case others were interested. Pretty neat, I was going to try and get the commem anyway so now I may go ahead and pick up the Australian version too. No idea what the price is yet or what the packaging is, but it sounds like the US Mint will have just our coins and the Royal Australian Mint will have ours and theirs in 1 nice package. Please correct me if I am wrong so I can fix this post From the email:
How come they aren't insisting that they have to strike the Austrailian coin like they did with the Iceland in the 2000 Lief Ericson set.
Because the Royal Australian Mint is a global minting powerhouse like the Royal Canadian Mint, the British Royal Mint, la Monnaie de Paris among others.
In other words the US Mint can't bully them around. Trivia tidbit. This will be the third coin set between the US mint and another country. I mentioned the first and this will be the third. What was the second?